No Oil Pressure

[SlowWhite]

Oh and also I took the Valve cover off and Polished it? not that I think it has anything to do with it. But just wanted to cover all the bases.

[Matt D.]

The oil pickup is hard, you're going to have to do quite a bit to bend that thing. Is there a gasket that should be between the pickup and the pump? The dent in the oil pan might be pressing right up against the screen of the pickup and not allowing any oil to get in.

[CDeutsch]

I'm confused. You said "everything was working just fine when I pulled into his house", but you said you found metal and c clips in the oil pan? Metal and c clips would indicate everything was not fine. :( I'd be more worried about what that was from.

As for no oil pressue; bad pump, huge oil leak, or there's something wrong with the pick up. Since it was working when you pulled in, leak, or problem with the pick up would be my guess.

[joem]

If i have to come over on fix this tonight i'm going to be pis--- just kidding, but if you need help I'll be there.
joe

[CDeutsch]

And although this would suck you might want to test the pump and/or pickup by taking off the timing belt and spinning the pump with a drill or air ratchet. Better then starting your motor with no oil pressure. Good luck!

[SlowWhite]

Well the metal could be from anything. I've never personally taken the oil pan off before.

this block has seen a T-25 blow up, as well as might be something from my old HRCS20G?

I don't know but if it was turbo parts then that would explain why it knocked so much when we dyno'd. The only thing I don't get is there was no bent fins, it spun freely, etc.

I don't know? There is about 45,000 miles on the oil pump if I had to guess.

Anyrate. I can't do anything towards this car at least till friday cause i don't have any gas or money to get up there to work on it.

I'm kind of temped just to tow it home and just leave the damn thing. My only problem is I don't have another car to drive.


Go figure I start off trying to fix a Minor problem and end up causing a big one?

When I pulled the pan off the oil pick up had a screen on it and was not dented and looked to be in perfect condition.

The oil pan I installed has been sitting in my garage for 2years. I cleaned it out when I was up at Jets prior to welding.

But didn't have the time to reclean after welding.

[JET]

The welding wouldn't have done anything to the inside of the oil pan, sans maybe burning a little paint off, but that wouldn't matter. We'll have to check it out more later on. It shouldn't be anything major.

[SlowWhite]

I was just wondering if there might have been splatter or somethign that could have gotten sucked up into it or what not.

(but I didn't have oil pressure from the get go. so who knows)

I really hope it isn't anything major cause it'll be end of OCT before I'd be able to pay to get it fixed.

I really hope I get out of this loud exhaust ticket. I need the money.

Also Jet think next time I come up there we can finish welding the dump tube?

If I take off the waiste gate we should be able to do it with it on the car. Since I'm probably sporting the only Flex Sectioned Dump Tube in the State. :woowoo:

[JET]

Yeah, we can definately do that. I don't think any splatter could have gotten up there. It has to have something to do with that oil pan or something.

[SlowWhite]

Maybe a swap back to the original Oil Pan in needed?

I don't know what the hell it could be. But I don't have the money to to the Timing belt or get a new oil pump.

And unless you guys can figure it out, I'm probably done for the year.