Hello everyone,
So this has happened twice, weirdly enough on the same stretch of highway about the same place. I am driving along at 120 kmh (KZJ78 prado with 1kz-te motor running 5-40 delvac 1 synthetic motor oil, lucas heavy duty synthetic oil stabiliser 1 qt and Toyota oem oil filter, levels are all good at high mark on dipstick) and my oil light will come on briefly, maybe 1 or 2 seconds. If I roll off it goes away right away and if I stay on it goes off after about 2 seconds. The first time it happened I immediately panicked thinking i'd just blown the motor pulled over to the side of the road and checked levels and they are at the high mark. The second time it happened I just kept going and it didn't come on again. Levels are still at the high mark. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I have generally low oil pressure on the gauge but from research that seems exceptionally normal for the land cruisers. It hovers just below the low mark on the gauge when driving at highway speeds when warm, like a hair below if not on the line and quite low when idling and if I stomp on it the gauge will read middle of the marks.
I have 265000km on the truck and i have done an oil change about 2000km ago. PO did not have the right oil filter on it, it was about half the size of the oem.
Not sure what to think. Worried about nuking my motor.
Thanks,
Lomo
So this has happened twice, weirdly enough on the same stretch of highway about the same place. I am driving along at 120 kmh (KZJ78 prado with 1kz-te motor running 5-40 delvac 1 synthetic motor oil, lucas heavy duty synthetic oil stabiliser 1 qt and Toyota oem oil filter, levels are all good at high mark on dipstick) and my oil light will come on briefly, maybe 1 or 2 seconds. If I roll off it goes away right away and if I stay on it goes off after about 2 seconds. The first time it happened I immediately panicked thinking i'd just blown the motor pulled over to the side of the road and checked levels and they are at the high mark. The second time it happened I just kept going and it didn't come on again. Levels are still at the high mark. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I have generally low oil pressure on the gauge but from research that seems exceptionally normal for the land cruisers. It hovers just below the low mark on the gauge when driving at highway speeds when warm, like a hair below if not on the line and quite low when idling and if I stomp on it the gauge will read middle of the marks.
I have 265000km on the truck and i have done an oil change about 2000km ago. PO did not have the right oil filter on it, it was about half the size of the oem.
Not sure what to think. Worried about nuking my motor.
Thanks,
Lomo