I've had this problem for quite sometime. I currently get around 0 psi at idle which sets off the dummy light. Unfortunately I do not have an oil pressure gauge but I can tell that my oil pressure is low across the board because while crusing, engine coolant temps reach anywhere from 195-200*. This is not normal since I have a 180* drilled thermastat along with an aftermarket PCM which turns on the cooling fans once the temperature exceeds somewhere around 185. This problem is very annoying and now at idle I can hear something ticking, I'm assuming its my lifters since they aren't getting any oil pressure. I'm going to install a new oil relief spring today that I ordered earlier this week and I'm praying that this will be a permanent fix for this problem. Although in the back of my head I have this fear that its my bearings, although they were replaced in September of 2003 when I broke three of them. Any thoughts?

 

stop driving the car... get a oil pressure gauge for piece of mind....it took only a split second for my bearing to look like this



my other bearings were scored but this one was the worst... luckily i was able to save my motor... all this took was one incident of oil starvation. i now have a oil pressure gauge and it has already saved me again.

 

Yeah I'm hoping it won't have to come to that. I've already had that issue before and replaced all the bearings, so I don't know why it'd happen again in such a short amount of time. Oh well, I'll run some scans and monitor the oil pressure and if it doesn't work, then I guess I gotta tear the engine apart and take a look at the bearings...

Thanks for the input.

 

0 psi and i'd say you already spun at least one rod....