The oil pump provides the force that delivers oil through galleries and passages around the engine. Oil pumps are usually either inside the oil pan and driven by a camshaft or outside the pan and ...

However, if your car normally requires the use of 5W-20, it's dangerously low on oil, the only motor oil you have available ... it harder for the engine's oil pump to distribute oil to precision ...

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