High Oil Pressure/Tons of oily smoke
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Hello again!
So I re-torqued all the manifold bolts and voila!
No more burning steam!!!! But now I have another issue.....
My Oil pressure will randomly drop to zero and often times won't jump back up.
I made a trip into town to pick up some spark plug cables (the SOB that I bought this truck from had jerry-rigged the cables on and when I changed the plugs I noticed them.) and Made it about 3/4 of the way (its about a 20 minute drive) when the pressure tanked and I pulled off to the side of the road.
Short story is she has plenty of oil in her, I have no mechanical gauge to check the sender unit, and I'm starting to want to push this truck off a cliff (and by that I mean yank the engine, bench the truck and wait until money flows my way and throw a 4Bt in it).
while i'm here can some one tell me how much gumption a 318 should have?
It feels like the truck is laden with about 4000lbs going up-hill all the time. I don't think this is right, but could I be wrong?
So I re-torqued all the manifold bolts and voila!
No more burning steam!!!! But now I have another issue.....
My Oil pressure will randomly drop to zero and often times won't jump back up.
I made a trip into town to pick up some spark plug cables (the SOB that I bought this truck from had jerry-rigged the cables on and when I changed the plugs I noticed them.) and Made it about 3/4 of the way (its about a 20 minute drive) when the pressure tanked and I pulled off to the side of the road.
Short story is she has plenty of oil in her, I have no mechanical gauge to check the sender unit, and I'm starting to want to push this truck off a cliff (and by that I mean yank the engine, bench the truck and wait until money flows my way and throw a 4Bt in it).
while i'm here can some one tell me how much gumption a 318 should have?
It feels like the truck is laden with about 4000lbs going up-hill all the time. I don't think this is right, but could I be wrong?
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Yeah, I figured it should have more umph than that.
I don't think you want this one, when I pulled the intake to replace the plenum....It was like the valley of death, so much crusted up gunk, I can only imagine what the rest of the beast looks like.
So if since i replaced the plenum, where could the loss of power be coming from?
I'm almost 100% sure the trani is fine, though I should mention that the truck is lifted and running over-sized tires (Not swampers or anything, just not stock). I'm pretty sure the rear-end has been re-geared for it, at 70mph I'm barely hitting 2000 RPM's.
The truck only has 140000 on the odo...Any help?
I don't think you want this one, when I pulled the intake to replace the plenum....It was like the valley of death, so much crusted up gunk, I can only imagine what the rest of the beast looks like.
So if since i replaced the plenum, where could the loss of power be coming from?
I'm almost 100% sure the trani is fine, though I should mention that the truck is lifted and running over-sized tires (Not swampers or anything, just not stock). I'm pretty sure the rear-end has been re-geared for it, at 70mph I'm barely hitting 2000 RPM's.
The truck only has 140000 on the odo...Any help?
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Yeah, I figured it should have more umph than that.
I don't think you want this one, when I pulled the intake to replace the plenum....It was like the valley of death, so much crusted up gunk, I can only imagine what the rest of the beast looks like.
So if since i replaced the plenum, where could the loss of power be coming from?
I'm almost 100% sure the trani is fine, though I should mention that the truck is lifted and running over-sized tires (Not swampers or anything, just not stock). I'm pretty sure the rear-end has been re-geared for it, at 70mph I'm barely hitting 2000 RPM's.
The truck only has 140000 on the odo...Any help?
I don't think you want this one, when I pulled the intake to replace the plenum....It was like the valley of death, so much crusted up gunk, I can only imagine what the rest of the beast looks like.
So if since i replaced the plenum, where could the loss of power be coming from?
I'm almost 100% sure the trani is fine, though I should mention that the truck is lifted and running over-sized tires (Not swampers or anything, just not stock). I'm pretty sure the rear-end has been re-geared for it, at 70mph I'm barely hitting 2000 RPM's.
The truck only has 140000 on the odo...Any help?
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and as far as the pickup screen goes, does it just pull off once I drop the pan? and what should my numbers look like for the Compression?
Thanks again,
-Jake