Ok.guys, changed my intake, new plenum, kegger mod, all back together.. now I lost all oil pressure, put a new oil pump in it, idles fine.. had pressure, went down the road..

Hit overdrive, lost oil pressure...kick it back out of od, pressure comes back, now got home, let it sit and idle, gauge shows zero pressure, but the motor dpesnt tick after about 30 mins runnin,

I go out, bring the rpms to about 1900ish and above, I get pressure back, let it idle down again.. loss pressure.

 

probbaly a wore out motor or the qauge is lieing to u

 

im going to guess the oil sensing unit. when you loose pressure does your engine start to knock or run seemingly normal?

 

It's probably the sender. Almost certainly the sender. Running half an hour on zero oil pressure would take out even one of these engines.

 

PCM only interprets pressure to be within set values at varying engine speed... i beleive, having said that- oil pressure is not always as it appears on the OEM gauge.

more than likely has b/w 0 and 6 psi, 6 psi being the minimum recognizable pressure before the dash reads 0. my guess is clearances have increased over the years, but as long as you have good flow, its all good

 

dang, if the clearences are that big, 20w50 might be in order

 

i wouldnt... not at this time of year

 

I'm pretty sure talkin to my grandfather, he said. Heavier oil, so now insttead of 5w30, 15w40 will go in and that fl-1a filter

 

I'm pretty sure talkin to my grandfather, he said. Heavier oil, so now insttead of 5w30, 15w40 will go in and that fl-1a filter

 

Make sure you didn't damage the sending unit or knock the plug loose while you were doing the other work.