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Oil pressure gauge reads low or 0:
Well my TJ just started doing this about a month ago and I finally went out and bought a brand new oil pressure switch. I put it on yesterday and drove it around today and the CHECK GAUGES light came back on and the oil pressure is at 0. Anything over idle i get oil pressure but never reaches 40. I ended up replacing the oil pump in my Jeep. After I replaced it, the Jeep developed a faint knocking sound coming from within the oil pan. I'm almost positive it's either crank or rod bearings. I do have HIGH, normal oil pressure now though.
I have talked to a lot of people with 97s and most of them do it.
On mine, it's just the oil guage. And it's only in that first few seconds upon start-up or re-start. A mechanical guage is a very good idea though. It would surely be more accurate. And as far as knocking and tapping...I have absolutely no knocking. There's a little tapping, which is constant and faint. But this just sounds like normal lifter/valvetrain noise to me. I did some rsearch a while back on the tapping, and everyone seemed to conclude that it was normal with all of the 4.0's.
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