1995 Honda Civic 1995 Civic oil pump replacement

DWOESTE

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1995 HONDA CIVIC
4 CYL
FWD
AUTOMATIC
128,000 MILES

I have a 95 Civic with 128K miiles on it. Oil pressure light was coming on intermittently and garage replaced the sensor. When they test drove the oil pressure actually dropped while accelerating. Light still comes on occassionally.

Today car stalled on my son. (Oil pressure light had been on for much of the day). Very hard to restart. Clunking kind of noise coming from the engine on the right side.

I'm wondering what could be wrong. Here's my plan of attack.

1. Drain oil and look for metal shavings and/or other stuff.

2. Remove the head cover to see if there is something obvious that appears to be wrong.

3. Pray either 1 or 2 leads me to what needs to be done.

Here's my question. If the oil pump is bad, what is involved in replacing it? I only need the car until he goes to college in 4 months and I don't want to invest much money in repairs.

Waht else should I be looking for?

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F4I_GUY

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Most likely what you will find is that the bottom end is the root of the problem. Most likely rod/crank bearings/journals are the cause of your low oil pressure.

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Sunday, May 24th, 2009 AT 2:11 PM

DWOESTE

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Perhaps some more details would help.

The car is not burning oil.
The timing belt and gear at the top look fine.
The car actually runs smooth, just with the clunking noise.
The noise is much louder when accelerating.

There were no metal shavings in the oil when I drained it.

Woudl the rod/crank bearings and journals create that noise. Again it sounds almost like something is loose.