hi all my oil light stays on when the car ticks over and when i rev it the light goes off the bloke who i bought the car from said he has had a new switch fitted it looks new to me so i dont think its that the car runs spot on with no knocks or rattles could it be the oil pump are they easy to change ?????

 

Get the oil pressure checked first, if the switch is working and the light is on you could well have some engine wear

 

the sump has been bodged up with some sort of mastic would this make the oil pressure wrong ???

 

what oils in her??

 

not sure

 

its just that mines the same and have been told to try different oil

 

ah ok well with a bit of luck someone on here will shed some light on it

 

for starters.get rid of that sump you dont know how well its sealed. then take it to a garage and get a pros opinion

 

i think my best option is to replace the sump and check the pick up at the same time if it ever stops raining lol

 

I'd certainly do the sump, a lot of pattern panel people do sumps as well like Hadrian.
It may well be the case that owing to the bodge the car suffered oil loss which has caused some crank/shell wear and that is why the light is on at tickover.
It would be wise to do an oil change and flush too.
If it is only on at tickover I would just put up with it, otherwise you will spend a lot of money on a rebuild when you could have many thousands of miles yet from this engine.
I have had cars that took 10 seconds for the oil pressure to build enough to stop the knocking before now, and still had a fair few thousand out of them, the old triumph sixes were famous for this, from new, as oil draine dback from poorly designed system but still would do over 100,000 miles.
tabetha

 

You could always check the shell bearings while the sump is off and renew if worn to prolong the engine that little bit longer.

 

My old engine used to bring the light on at idle. I left it and after a while it killed the engine. Cause was an oil pump. Can be a pig of a job in place mind you