lachi3r

Trying to replace front brake hoses. Are they a two piece hose or is the metal bit. Just to hold it to the strut bracket. Can't get them undone.

hoorah!!! problem fixed!! found a new housing at a wreckers and put it on and no more light. also the new one didnt even have that little valve looking thing in the hole... so i don't know what the go is there.... but its fixed :) so i'm happy. Thanks for all your help guys :) Very much appreciated

So I took the oil pump off today and cleaned it out with petrol. There wasn't really any gunk in there. I figure the little pressure valve has just ceased up. Tried spraying compressed air through the holes and blocking some. Couldn't get it to open up. Going to try and find a new pump next week. The thing is. I also put new oil in today so will I be able to take the pump off again without draining the oil?

Thanks heaps for doing that mark. Legend.

Mmm I'll pull it apart on Saturday and give it a good clean and new oil and see how I go.

that would be much appreciated man.

Tried taking the sensor off when it had warmed up and the light had gone out... Nothing. Poked it with some wire... Nothing. Sprayed some wd40 in there.. Still nothing. I can't even see where the oil is supposed to come out. There's just that little golf but like in the photo. No hole. Looks like the top of a pop rivet.

I took it for a drive with the new sensor in today and it eventually went out after the car had completely warmed up.

yeah but i don't have a catalogue

the light is on when the key is at ign and stays on strong once the car is started. the only one that has gone out after a while is the old one. so far the new one just stays on. but ill take it for a drive and see what happens. is it possible that the new one could just be the wrong one??

alright ill give that a try. should i drain the oil first?? also, at the moment the old sensor is showing no light but the new one is lighting up. so I'm not sure if the old one just isnt working anymore, and the new one is. or the new one is the wrong one and the old one is working... if that makes sense the black one is the old one and the red is the new one...

Here is what is inside the sensor housing.

i just tried that. there's just a little gold bit inside the hole and i couldn't get anything to come out. i did scrape some gunk out but i think that may have just been the sealing tape from sensor.

i took for a drive this morning and it went out after a little while so i thought it was all good but when i went to drive it later it was back on and now it sort of goes on and off every now and then. by the way this is with the old sensor back in as i thought the new one may have been the wrong one. So i took it to an auto electrician this afternoon and he said its either a faulty sensor or i actually have low oil pressure so i took it to a garage and hooked it up to a gauge.. which didn't even give a reading but we werent sure it the gauge actually worked. we tried turning the engine on with no sensor on there thinking some oil should spil out the hole but nothing. took the filter off to see what it was like and it seemed fine. turned the engine over with the filter not on all the way and oil spilled out so its definitely pumping oil. The engine sounds fine and no sign of loud knocking like an engine with low oil pressure so i have no idea what is happening. I'm going to give the engine a good service when i can. flush all the old shitty black oil out and new filter. along with a few other things and see what its like then. might also buy an oil pressure gauge just so i can be sure I'm all good to drive the thing. is oil supposed to spil out the hole if there is no sensor in it when you start the car?? any help is much appreciated.

anyone???