No Oil Pressure

[520Talon]

I would also take off the tbelt and spin it up. If the oil pump went dry it can be hard to prime. I had the same issue two weekend ago with my new motor. No oil to the head and no pressure reading. Pulled the tbelt and it took almost 30 sec of spinning before the drill slowwed and showed signs of oil being in there.

[JET]

Well, the brass pieces can't be parts of the oil pump gears since they are steel. The most curious thing was a fully intact wavy C clip that was in the oil pan. It had about a 3/4" diameter to it.

[Matt D.]

Originally posted by JET@Aug 4 2004, 11:31 PM
Well, the brass pieces can't be parts of the oil pump gears since they are steel. The most curious thing was a fully intact wavy C clip that was in the oil pan. It had about a 3/4" diameter to it.
Wrist pin retainer? :lol:

[JET]

I am pretty sure it is turbo bits. That is the only place I can think that they use brass in the oil path.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

I know a guy on NABR found some unknown parts in his oil pan a while back and they were supposedly some T25 turbo bearings.

[SlowWhite]

Well I never took off the oil filter though any of this so wouldn't there still be oil in that system?


it's definetely not electrical cause when you take the oil cap off and look inside the head when the cars running you can see there is no oil getting to the head.

[TalonFiero]

I vote to try spinning the pump with a dril, if you don't see any oil getting to the head time to drop the pan.

:goodluck:

Jim

[Raptor]

If it was mine and I had that much time and money into the car, the pan would be off and the front case, pump gears be apart so I could check everything. Having any metal in the pan can cause damage to so many things, it isn't worth it to just guess and fix one problem when there could be many. The steel gears in the pump ride in an aluminum housing, any particles that make their way past the pickup screen will chew up that housing. Bearings and journals get destroyed by small particles as well. I would do everything I could to make sure that the bottom end is as clean and within spec as possible.

I won't speculate as to how this happened. You will most likely find out if you get it all ripped apart.

[Enes]

good luck either way... all it needs is time by the sounds of it!

-E

[SlowWhite]

Time and Money.

If I knew how to do a Timing Belt I'd tear the whole thing apart. But I don't so I'm at least looking at $400 or what ever the going rate is for a Timing Belt Job, Which I don't have at this time.

I will and plan to at least drop the Oil pan just because it's Free and Easy enough to do.

Like I said if we can't figure it out, etc when we drop the oil pan. I'll just have the car towed back to the house and it'll sit there till I get money to tear the motor apart. Earliest would be October.

I have my a $220 ticket to pay for. as Well as my $450 Plane ticket to South Carolina for my September trip with Jenny.

I just don't know what else I'll have to drive. Jenny's tranny is getting to the point where it doesn't grind or anything, But it just won't go in gear. Which is why I stopped driving that car.