Low oil pressure will not typically cause instantaneous catastrophic failure. No oil volume will but as long as you have some pressure you will have flow to your main and CR bearings. Your pistons and cylinders will receive splash lubrication as long as there is oil in the pan. Your engine may be loud due to low oil pressure from collapsed buckets and if oil is not making it up to the valve covers eventually it will flatten your cams, but that will happen over thousands or tens of thousands of miles.

Also if your engine truely has low oil pressure it will drive forever but it will be rattling like a can of marbles after just a few miles. If it is NOT doing that then you actually have oil pressure and your problem is a faulty oil pressure switch/circuit. Either an open switch/circuit or the mechanical internals are gummed up and frozen.

 

I edited the description on cars.com so read it. Started the car in neutral today based on advice given here and the motor is perfect. If you have $3000 you got it.

 

I don't see in the listing anything about where the car is presently located.

 

Good morning. The car is located in Trumbauersville PA.
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