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Old Sep 8, 2007 | 08:02 PM
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...a few days ago I posted a thread about low oil pressure and horrible clacking noises coming fromthe heads after I installed headers. Well, it turns out that it wasthe oil sending unit has gone out! Nothing to do withthe headers just highly coincidentel. It has caused the lifting of some ofthe valves!!
So I am kinda bummed, really don't have thetime for this, just an update.
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Old Sep 9, 2007 | 11:23 AM
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Uhhhhhhh,
If you have noise in the valvetrain, then you have more issues than just a sending unit going out. A sending unit just reads the oil pressure, it has no affect on it, and should have no effect to the valvetrain--it would just make the guage read wrong.
Old Sep 19, 2007 | 12:52 PM
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ORIGINAL: D_Gusler

Uhhhhhhh,
If you have noise in the valvetrain, then you have more issues than just a sending unit going out. A sending unit just reads the oil pressure, it has no affect on it, and should have no effect to the valvetrain--it would just make the guage read wrong.
Ya, what he said....
Old Sep 19, 2007 | 02:23 PM
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He must mean a sensor for the VVT, not oil presure sending unit.The sensordoes messure oil pressure and advanced /retards cam based on engine oil pressure.
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