Oil Pressure Sensor TD5

Hi all,

Been loving the TD5 for the past few months and not had to fix anything on it just of late

However....... a couple of flickers of the oil light this morning so stopped driving it immediately (I was only 100 yards from home).

It is a 2000 disco TD5 so one of the ones affected by the apparently faulty oil pump bolt.

Any ideas?

I'm thinking check the engine oil pressure in the morning with a test gauge, if no pressure then look at pump bolt. if there is pressure then try a new sensor and check wiring, etc...

Also where is the oil pressure sensor? Somewhere between the battery and engine side or the other?

TIA!

The oil pressure sensor is on the nearside of the block near the firewall under the exhaust manifold, it's connected into the oil cooler that's mounted to the side of the block (and has the oil filter connected to it).

The sensor is grounded via the block and has a single wire connection back to the ECU which runs around the back of the head and over the top of the bell housing, it's really common for this wire to fray and short out on the bell to give the flickering oil lamp - this would be the first thing I'd check.

....and if that wire breaks then you don't get an oil light at all. (That's what happened to me)

Fault sorted big hammer!