Wierd light on my dash!!!

[7MSupraGE87na]

All right...before anyone yells at me... I learned my lesson!

Today I was running errands for my mom and I was in the bank drive through when I smelled burning coolant, I look down and ym temp gauage is over the double red line. I quickly shut my car off and push it into a parking spot.

Coolant is shooting out of the overflow tank and burning on the hot radiator. I was completely out of coolant, so I walked over to the store and bought some coolant. I noticed my oil pressure was low as well so I got a quart of oil to put in and I drove it home. When I got home I was tinkering around under the hood and realised my engine fan has a short and I found exactly where it is.

I got my fan fixed, but when I started the car again, a light came on, on the left hand side of the dashboard. It kind of looks like a mini radiator with the cap off. I have no idea what that means at all... my oil pressure is still at 0 so I plan on doing an oil change tomorrow. The temp gauge is back to normal and there isn't a knocking sound or even a faint clicking sound, so I think I saved the internals by shutting the car off emediatly.

But what does that light mean!?

[Big Wang Bandit]

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[7MSupraGE87na]

Yes that light...what does it mean?

[chris717]

put some coolant and water in the overflow tank

[7MSupraGE87na]

Well thank you guys, my bird has been given water and the light shut off. but now my oil pressure is back down at 0 after raising a bit. I'm going to give it an oil change or spend like $30 and have it done by a shop (cuz im lazy) and then hope it works. I just hope nothing was damaged

[chris717]

did you just put in plain water??
it takes at most 10 mintues to do a oil change, dont waste your money letting a shop do it.

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

use distilled water

do your own change, that way while you're under the car, you can diagnose whay your Oil pressure gauge is reading 0.

[chris717]

yup.
u need to find out whats going on....
whats the last time you gave it a oil change?

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

I honestly doubt it has anything to do with mechanics...


I think its electrical, as in your gauge isnt receiving a good signal from the sender

[johnathan1]

Oil starvation can cause overheating... It definitely could be a mechanical problem.

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

he didnt say his oil was low...


was your oil low?


if you ran it dry, man...:3d_frown:

I dont even do that to my beater civic

[Burntz]

if your pressure is at 0... not ood

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

like I said, it could be bad wiring

[chris717]

well if he didn't need oil why did he go buy a quart of oil???
And is saying he needs a oil change..... But is 2 lazy to do it.
that means to me he hasn't put oil for a while

[Shytheed Dumas]

If there's one thing I've learned it's that a 7M is not a good choice for the lazy. Better get used to popping the hood for oil checks on a regular basis at the very least. :)

[chris717]

yup talking about oil change i need to do mine...
just dont know what brand oil to use this time?
I'm N.a

[ValgeKotkas]

^Read Jdub's sections...

[chris717]

it's just theirs alot of new brands coming out so i want to try them out...

[ValgeKotkas]

''Do not upgrade/repair until it's not broken''

[Dragk913]

it's just theirs alot of new brands coming out so i want to try them out...

Use German Castrol [It says Made in Germany on the back] or
AMSoil Series 2000. Both are 0w30.
Thats what I'm gonna run once I finish my rebuild/break-in.

[AJ'S 88NA]

Well thank you guys, my bird has been given water and the light shut off. but now my oil pressure is back down at 0 after raising a bit. I'm going to give it an oil change or spend like $30 and have it done by a shop (cuz im lazy) and then hope it works. I just hope nothing was damaged
Hopfully you didn't run it out of oil:3d_frown: Check on the header side over the block, below the distrubutor, there is a single wire that goes to a round sending unit, it slides off towards the wire. Check to see if it is making good contact, its the oil sending unit. If the oil hasn't been changed for a good while the oil filter could also be plugged up.

[f00g00]

It is possible your guage is bad. Ive been driving on a bad guage for over 5 years. The dealer can't even special order one here and Ive tried a few from the junkyard, all bad. I metered the wires from the cluster to the sending unit and changed the sending unit twice. You might have to use an aftermarket one if its bad. I havn't tried to get a new one from the USA yet.

[BorHor]

Oil pressure doesn't get really drop until you lose like 2 or more quarts.

[supraman7mgte]

proper maintenance? what the hell is that?!?

[7MSupraGE87na]

Sorry for the no replies it's been a heel of a few weeks. I did an oil change when I first got the car, and it did that whole thing about a month after the car. I did an oil change and the pressure gauge is still at 0. So I'm going to guess its a wireing problem? But I don't know. My oil is brand new and its not low at all.

[Matce]

*Waiting for the rebuild-thread* :biglaugh:

[OneJoeZee]

proper maintenance? what the hell is that?!?
Something alot of people have NFI about.

[Mr.SelfDestruct]

NFI? thats new... whats it stand for?

EDIT: oh wait, nevermind. hahha

I had no fucking idea what it meant. lol.

[AJ'S 88NA]

Sorry for the no replies it's been a heel of a few weeks. I did an oil change when I first got the car, and it did that whole thing about a month after the car. I did an oil change and the pressure gauge is still at 0. So I'm going to guess its a wireing problem? But I don't know. My oil is brand new and its not low at all.
Did you check your wire on the pressure sending unit below the distributor???