i was pushin the car fairly good around an on ramp today... it was a 270° turn so it was a fairly long turn... anyways i get about 2/3 through the on ramp and my oil level light comes on... i thought **** have i finally blown something

so i ease it onto the side of the highway check oil its fine... no oil on the road...

time to convert to dry sump maybe

 

or time to start putting oil in at regular intervals, either ring blow by, or the valve seals are toast

 

but theres still 3/4 oil left in though? i thought the low light hting happened caues the g's i was pulling hte turn forced the oil to one side and starved the pump

hence the dry sump

 

man i don't even know if my oil light works, i took it in yesterday for an oil change, kinda past do by like 5000km, so i figured it would be low and the dip stick was almost dry, gave me a little scare.
exactly how low does your oil have to be before the light should come on

and sorry for this post having nothing to do with what your talking about Rick

 

mine does that on off/on ramps BUT it only does it when it's close to changing oil time...like last night.

 

did the light go off rick?

maybe you have no oil pressure

 

ya the light went off like 3-4 secs after i was going straight... i just pulled over to check.... vtec was engaging and disenganging the whole time of the light being on...

must have starved the oil pump lost pressure then regained it again once oil was in the pan and not forced on the side

 

same symptoms of my buddys old H23... spun a bearing a week later, the oil light was off when the bearing went, and he wasnt even pushing it hard at the time, just highway cruising...

but wehn he preveously pushed it hard the oil light would come on, but it was showing fine on the dip stick... sounds like yours was due to the cornering..but still ive never heard of that happeing, i guess its possible, kinda like the gas light comeing on...

 

ya i dont know after 311 000 kms i can say the engine served me well...

the new addition could possibly be on its way in a couple weeks

 

install a real oil pressure gauge. The oil light is not the best way to keep tabs on your lubricating system. I learned the hard way.....

 

honda recommends oil changes every 12000KM.

 

i thought it was every 8000kms max
roughly 5000-8000kms

 

That would be my guess too...

 

lol ya if you look under my hood in my 4th gen it says 7500miles or 12,000kms...who the **** would wait that long to change their oil?

 

thats weird, considering there was no synthetic oil way bak in the old 4th gen days... correct?


i can see them saying that for a newer car on synthetic...even still, if i ran synthectic it would be 8,000 max...

I change every 4,000 on dino juice.

 

isn't that a low oil pressure light??? not a low oil level light...?

 

The light comes on when there is a lack of oil pressure, the light wont come on when its just low. It is a pressure guage not a level sensor, that is why when you put the ignition on without the engine running, the light will be on. Pressure is 0 when the engine is off. When the light flickers, that is when the sump is trying to pick up oil and it is all on the side of the oil pan, when you are cornering at speed. It is a dry sump system. there is no oil splash it is all under pressure

 

My oil light started coming on/off (during hard turns or hard braking) just before my last oil change. I knew I was over my limit (usually change every 4k, was upto 5.5 or 6k)... turns out i lost nearly all the oil, which is odd, cause it never leaked... so Im thinking I burnt it all... but no smoke or anything. still a mystery. Now i keep tabs on it every week to make sure it's still in the full range.

 

to my knowledge that 12000 kms is for normal driving... we're in the severe conditions

 

^Dito. Severe=Somewhere around 5000km.