i have a 92 new yorker with 3.3 engine. car was fine till wife hit a deer and smashed front end. radiator is gone but engine still runs fine. well while waiting on replacement parts i have started the car from time to time, just for
5 minutes or less beings it has no water in engine, to keep battery good and charged and to keep things well oiled. well the last time i started it i noticed a light saying check gauges. i did and found the oil pressure gauge below the lowest point, no oil pressure! i thought it might just be a bad gauge or a wire to gauge not getting contact somewhere. so i let it run for 3 or 4 minutes and engine started to really make a loud tapping noise coming from lifters. now i know i have no oil pressure for sure. i turned engine off. what would have caused this to just happen out of the blue? would a oil sending unit be the problem? has my oil pump just quit working? everything worked fine till this point. oil has always been changed every 3,000 miles.- posted
20 years ago