[bowman088]

I was driving at Thunderhill yesterday, when in the last session of the day going through turn 14 I notice the warning light is on and the oil pressur is at zero. luckily I was at pit entrance so I quickly dove into the pits and shut the engine off, so hopefully there wasnt any major damage. There was no oil leaking so I think that it is something in the pump broke. Has anyone had this happen to them or know of a something that could have caused it?

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[The_Oz]

The suction tube perhaps [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif[/img] - sucking air instead of oil [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

I know they used to break on some of the 944 types and assume (hope) they've been modified for the 968.

There's also a "hinge-plate-modification" to mount in the oil-pan ... to prevent 'air-sucking' when going fast through corners [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif[/img]

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[PorscheDude]

Yea, may want to pull the pan and check the oil pick up.
May as well do rod bearings and nuts while your in there.

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[flash]

whatever you do, don't drive it like that until you figure out what it is - i've had complete oil failure a couple of times, and gotten lucky, i just as easily could have had catastrophic failures

if no oil was found shooting all over the place, i would suspect either a sender (hoping for that) or the pickup tube (unfortunately more likely)

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[firefish]

In my old cuda I installed an idiot light with a separate sender as a complement to the oil pressure gauge. I am thinking about doing the same to the 968 as it is a good way of determining wether a potentially hazardous condition is real or not.

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[josephsc]

Hmmm.... I've always had reduced (but not zero) oil pressure in the last couple of runs at Thunderhill. I had chalked it up to hot weather and really pushing the car (I would frequently run double-sessions, so the car is on the track two-third of the time). I never let the oil get to zero though temperature has on occasion get high enough to hit the idiot light.

Definitely proceed with caution. I didn't and the outcome of my experience is here: http://www.968forums.com/index.php?showtopic=7935

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[mattipuh]

I had this issue after engine rebuild, culprit was too loose main crank bolt, needs torque 210Nm.

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