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Old 11-04-2009, 12:18 AM
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Ok so I just went back out and looked under the hood to examine the area that I was working around and found that a vacuum line that connects to a black tube that goes on top of the air filter housing and attaches to the valve cover was broken. I put a new piece of tubing on to rectify that issue. I then continued looking around for anything else that may have been disconnected around the immediate area, but found nothing. I next attempted to locate the oil sender unit which I think I found from under the hood. It is a plug that attaches to the rear of the oil filter housing correct? If that was it, it was connected properly and infact it was so far down, that, that was one of the parts that I didn't tamper with when cleaning the engine....I actually covered a few key electrical components that I could see as well as the abs unit and belt and used the Easy-Off around the perimeter of the valve cover and also certain areas that collected gunk like the p/s reservoir etc. I then hosed it off with a medium pressure spray making sure not to let any water get into the spark plugs..... Anyways, I took the car for a test drive a about half an hour ago and the oil pressure seems to be operating as it was before. I drove around for about 45 mins to make sure the engine was at its normal operating temp and it seems fine now. At 2000 rpm it is at 3 bars again, but before I would have to add a little more gas to get it to go up to 3 bars. We'll see how it goes tomorrow. Thank you all for your input I will keep you updated. And yes Ivan, I need to get the bolts out, not sure if I can do it by myself because I fear making a bigger eff up than I already did, so once I get my new parts in I will call my mechanic and see if he can get them out for me.

Thanks again,

- the Noob
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