1995 Oldsmobile Achieva Oil Pressure

1995 OLDSMOBILE ACHIEVA
70,000 MILES • 4 CYL • 2WD • AUTOMATIC
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Howdy! First, my oil pressure sending unit may be bad... the gauge fluctuates a lot. When I step on the gas, the neddle pegs all the way to the right. It has at times though in idle, gone down all the way to the left!

I would suspect only that but, cold starting, I hear metal on metal sounds coming from what I can tell to be the top left part of the engine. (Facing the engine) It seems once the car warms to NOT, the sounds greatly diminsh, which kind of leads me to believe bad circulation for the oil!

I flushed the engine twice with the same results. Any help would be great. Thanks.
Jun 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM
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Any time you have an oil pressure issue, install a manual gauge to verify.If it has pressure then you need to do a little tear-down to see what the noise is. Is this a Quad-4?
Jun 19, 2009 at 7:45 AM
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