I recently purchased a camaro. Yesterday, it started having troubles getting hot and the oil pressure dropping.

When the temp gets 3/4 way up, the pressure starts dropping. At idle, It gets in the red and the check gages light come on.. Any ideas what this could be?

 

blown head gasket. do u have water in the oil? milky color. are u leaking or losing coolant? what wt of oil? last oil change? what oil filter? are your fans coming on?

 

1) No water in oil
2) Not sure, we flushed the radiator out and have been draining it off and on to get the rest of the gunk out.
3) 5W-30
4) Last oil change 3 weeks ago
5) Purolator
6) Fan come on around 240 on temp gauge. ( Single Fan )

Jordan

 

Hotter the engine gets the thinner the oil gets. Are you loosing any coolant? I am in the process of replacing the head gaskets on one. It started getting hot but it was losing coolant internally. Then it started blowing coolant out the overflow tank. Turned out it was a blown head gasket and a cracked head.

 

switch to 10w30. have u been bleeding the air out? i think u can get some flush additive to aid in getting the crap out of the system. may take three or four flushes to get it clean. 3.4 seems to blow head gaskets and they dont always lose water into the oil so a compression test on the cylinders and or a pressure test on the cooling system would be in order. also bring it up to pressure and leave it for a time and see if u lose pressure and if u do look for were the coolant is goin.