1996 2.7 problems

marine6132

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Hello, I have a 96 Tacoma 4x4 with 2.7. 154000 miles .The other day I notice that after driving a while and the engine got up to normal temperature my oil light flickered. Truck starts and operates fine no smoke or high temp. Does not rattle. The next morning I pulled my oil sending sensor and connected a oil psi gauge. When first cranked it went to 60 psi but as it warmed it starting dropping, it leveled out at 8 psi once motor got to operating temp. I could give it gas and it would go to 30 psi. So I had the bright idea to drain a quartof oil and put in quart of Lucas oil treatment to see if it would raise the idle psi. But now my gauage shows no psi idle or not and the motor raddles, any ideas ?
 
Drain all the oil including the treatment and put 5w-30 synthetic and drive it. It holds 5.7 qt. Make sure it's full.
Let us know what happens.
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