March 18, 200620 yr I finally own A Real Subaru... I bought for $150 A 1981 Subaru DL Wagon... Clean for 176k and only 2 owners. I need an Oil pressure sensor and some brake work.... I got some stuff for sale to check it out in the classifieds... I'll get pics soon!! How much does it cost to lift and put some pugs on??
March 18, 200620 yr Your oil pressure sensor is really a switch since the DL doesn't have a oil pressure guage. There's couple of early EA81's at Lynnwood PAP and there should be a pressure sender there. How did you drive it home with a missing sender? PUGs show up at PAP about once a month; if you hit the yard at the right time you can score a set for pretty cheap. 176K is just about broken in; it should have lots of miles left. It's almost old enough to be exempt from emissions testing.
March 18, 200620 yr Author The sender is just turning the light on.. thats all. The engine is clean, and the thing just starts up and runs... I drove it from rat city to lynwood 3 times today
March 18, 200620 yr The sender is just turning the light on.. thats all. The engine is clean, and the thing just starts up and runs... I drove it from rat city to lynwood 3 times today Likely the sender is not bad - you probably have no oil pressure. Been there. Get a new oil pump NOW or suffer a blown rod sooner rather than later. A re-seal is NOT sufficient. Once those idiot lights start going on, you need to TEST the oil pressure. I replaced the seals in one that had a similar problem - engine blew a rod about 5k miles later. Test your pressure, and do the smart thing - install a real guage. The idiot light for oil pressure is probably why there are so few DL's left. Bad design to remove an engine safety item from a stripped down model. GD
March 18, 200620 yr If the light is coming on its also possible that.... you may have the analog sender for the light. I once had an RX engine in my 86 GL-10 turbowagon and I plugged it into the sender for the guage. That sender caused the light to come on. I bought the proper sender and the light turned off.
March 18, 200620 yr Flo might have the right idea; if you drop by my house I can show you the difference in the two senders. Or if I get to it I can photo the two senders so you know which one you have. If you have the one for the guage, swapping dashes will be less costly. If the light is coming on its also possible that.... you may have the analog sender for the light. I once had an RX engine in my 86 GL-10 turbowagon and I plugged it into the sender for the guage. That sender caused the light to come on. I bought the proper sender and the light turned off.
March 19, 200620 yr Author I bought one at autozone for 6 dollars, The one for the light... and it went away... The old one was just bad.. I think.. they matched each other
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