Well one thing after another with this damn car!! I like stated before have a 96 z. The other dat I left for my lunch break and as I was driving i heard a sound like a exhaust leak! Well I shut it off right as I heard it and relized that my check engine light was flashing and that I lost oil pressure! The sound that I was hearing was my lifters getting no oil! My Q is would this be a oil pump and if so would this fix it ??? It wasnt ran long at all once heard but I amso pissed with this car !!Ijust bought this car 2 months ago after switching from mustangs and day after day I drove my mustang hard and never anything like this happened!! Is my motor toast??? or bearings?? I feel sick lol !! Also after looking at the car do you have to pull the motor to change a oil pump or can i just jack it up?? Please let me know so I dont waste mymoney and time on a oil pump????

 

You seem too excited about it haha...
okay well lets see...
did the oil pressure drop before it did that or was it a kinda ALL THE SUDDEN NO OIL kinda thing?
cause it seems like itd take awhile of not gettin oil for it to start making a noise like that
oh and youre DEFINITELY gonna have to pull the motor to change an oil pump... its wayyyy back in there.
lt1 engines are a ***** to work on... i found that out just by changing a water pump

 

Im not to sure I just started hearing the noise and looked down?? I have no problem changing the oil pump....but do you think that is the problem or is it worst??? If its worst that biatch is going back and I will quit paying on the damn thang! I have had problem after poblem with this! ....not all so serioiuse but enough little things to **** you off!! I am just so confused on what to do?? I just dont want to waste my time or money?? Also is a lt1 from a caprice police car the same as my camaro lt1?? cause I know were one is for cheap??

 

I have heard that a oil pump going out while driving is rare?? any truth??

 

does that sentence really need question marks? hahah just messin
im not the ****in grammar police lol
okay well MAYBE just maybe theres a bigger problem but since you shut it off so quickly you couldve avoided it.

um yeah i think theyre almost exactly the same, just a few small differences, and they have about 20 or so less HP

 

Uhh if your really worried about making sure it was the oil pump, take it to a professional!!!! But that does suck, and I dont think that a lt1 motor was in the caprice police car.

 

yeah it definitely was, the lt1 was in a lot more cars than the camaro and corvette. the imapla ss had one too around 1996 i think.

 

Yea I should but I try to do all my work myself... how could I tell if its the oil pump??

 

im not sure about that one... theres probably not much more than taking the thing apart. have you turned it on since it happened?

 

It will start fine it will just chatter from lack of oil.