He once said that he never saw a Chevy Suburban. Seeing that I see them in Poland (rarely, but I do) makes me question his Americanness a bit when coupled together with what you said.
Oil level is good, could maybe be the wrong kind of oil but I can't tell. I'm hoping it's nothing catastrophic. The car drives fine and isn't down on power, so it could be something minor. Either way I'll have to move this to the top of the to do list if there's a chance the engine isn't getting lubricated.
Didnt you say it only happens when going downhill? If yes maybe its due to the position of the sensor being at a place where the oil goes when its going downhill?
Is it just the fact that when you are traveling downhill it forces oil into the pump because of the position of the oil pump?
Probably something like that. I'm not familiar enough with this car or engine layout yet to really have good idea of how either of those are laid out. I'm also admittedly not very mechanically savvy. I haven't had the chance to change it since I got it so I have no idea. I'm hoping the previous owner wasn't using thicker oil to hide a leak.
Yeah, I am not familiar with how to fix/diagnose Subarus, but I know that you should check the head gaskets because of how prone to failing they are.
While Subarus have always had head gasket problems, they didn't get really bad until the 90's from what I can find online. My car isn't showing any symptoms (I'm 90% sure my previous post on this exact issue was just me being a worry wart, as usual) so I'm not super concerned for the time being. I just hope this car isn't going to grenade in 6 months, making this all a waste. I don't mind sinking all of my money into a cool car, but I at least want to get a few good years out of it. It's turning out to have a few issues that I don't even think the previous owner knew about, but I guess that's what you get when you opt to buy cheap and fix up instead of buying something nice to begin with, as was my original plan.
Downhill can't account for that much pressure change. Pickup is fairly central in the sump on the EJ, don't it's drastically different in an offer motor. If there's high pressure reading, typically the flow rate has dropped, blockage or similar upstream of the pump.
My Saabaru has a bad head gasket, but the only symptom is that it leaks oil onto the ground and burning oil can occasionally be smelled when its over 80* outside. Other than that, there are no noticeable effects (maybe power loss or something, but I got the car with a bad head gasket so I have no way of knowing).
Yeah it also has lots of rust. And the shift linkage is pretty much non existent. And the A/C doesn't work (which sucks because it gets hot in the southeast). And it had been riced by the previous owner... The list goes on, luckily it won't be my problem much longer as I am selling it, but I think you get the picture.
I don't remember, I know I overpaid though. It also has a check engine light which I didn't know about until 2 months ago. The previous owner disabled it by unplugging a wire under the dashboard, which I discovered when I bumped it with my foot while I was driving.
On the topic of Ford trademarking the Maverick name, there’s already been an SUV called the Maverick. It was the Euro version of the Escape. Just putting that out there.
I did actually. I was OK with the rust and head gasket because of the rarity of the car, being a manual 92x with leather and a sunroof, but a lot of things broke recently like the a/c. I had no way of knowing the check engine light though because it was really hidden. Anyways I never intended on keeping the car for much longer than I have anyways because I just wanted something to learn to drive stick in.
that's actually why I bought my bronco because it is very hard to find an I6 one or a stick one never mind one that is I6 with a stick but aside from brake lines and tires it didn't need much although I intend on keeping it for a wile because 80-96 broncos are shooting up in value over the last 5 years
