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Old 07-17-2005, 05:27 PM
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Re: Oil Pressure

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Originally Posted by '89sdimeblazer
ok so i bought all of the stuff for the oil sending unit, the new unit the deep socket to take it out. Well everything was nice until the socket i bought was too small to take out the original oil pressure sender. so i got a pair of vice grips and went to werk and i got the old one to turn but it wouldnt come out it only spins HELp!!!! the truck still runs but the oil pressure still is not correct would like to change over to the new oil sender. any help would be greatly appreiciated thanks you in advance.

-Ricky

I ran into the same problem, and went back and bought the larger socket as well. Sounds as if you've stripped the threads on the old unit at the fitting. Can you get a wrench on the fitting? If not, overboardproject's advice is about as good as it gets.

Good luck!
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