so a year or so ago, a helper arced the battery positive to the plenum or something with a wrench... hitachi radio and oil sender went poof.... everything else was fine
so late last year I installed a small autometer oil guage, when I fired it up for the first time this year I was getting 65psi on old oil
after fixing some stuff unrelated to the oiling like exhaust gasket, cleanup, harness work, adding/removing the starter 40x etc... I went in to change the injectors, so the whole plenum came off, a little cleanup later the injectors went in, new injector clips soldered on....
so while the top end was off I popped the driver's valvecover (note here everything after this I did to the passenger side years earlier), I removed the lifter assemblies and proceeded to remove all the caked on oil, I had a beam central vac hooked up to a 3/8 hose so I had a straw to suck up all the crust as I peeled it off, and it all came out nicely...
once the head was clean I did the rockers and lifter block, I inspected the lifters and they all had a nice spring to them and no wear on the the cam surface, then threw it all back together, checked the rockers once in for any freeplay side to side, everything nice and tight, camshaft had no marks either
anyway fired it up once more for a minute to warm it up, then drained the oil.... refill with cheap nugold jug...
I started it up the next day with no difficulty, but I noticed now I wasn't getting any oil pressure reading on the guage when I was moving it around, the guage is connected to a 1/8 ethylene tube running to a 1/8 bspt adapter in the block as before...
ok maybe the oil splashed a tiny crusty into the tube I'm thinking, so I unhooked the guage and let the oil flow freely, it dribbled out just like it did before when it said I HAD oil pressure... strange? if I was getting 65psi before it should have been shooting out the tube but it wasn't? now that I have "no pressure" it still dribbles out the same way?
am I missing something? did I hit my head too often?
so late last year I installed a small autometer oil guage, when I fired it up for the first time this year I was getting 65psi on old oil
after fixing some stuff unrelated to the oiling like exhaust gasket, cleanup, harness work, adding/removing the starter 40x etc... I went in to change the injectors, so the whole plenum came off, a little cleanup later the injectors went in, new injector clips soldered on....
so while the top end was off I popped the driver's valvecover (note here everything after this I did to the passenger side years earlier), I removed the lifter assemblies and proceeded to remove all the caked on oil, I had a beam central vac hooked up to a 3/8 hose so I had a straw to suck up all the crust as I peeled it off, and it all came out nicely...
once the head was clean I did the rockers and lifter block, I inspected the lifters and they all had a nice spring to them and no wear on the the cam surface, then threw it all back together, checked the rockers once in for any freeplay side to side, everything nice and tight, camshaft had no marks either
anyway fired it up once more for a minute to warm it up, then drained the oil.... refill with cheap nugold jug...
I started it up the next day with no difficulty, but I noticed now I wasn't getting any oil pressure reading on the guage when I was moving it around, the guage is connected to a 1/8 ethylene tube running to a 1/8 bspt adapter in the block as before...
ok maybe the oil splashed a tiny crusty into the tube I'm thinking, so I unhooked the guage and let the oil flow freely, it dribbled out just like it did before when it said I HAD oil pressure... strange? if I was getting 65psi before it should have been shooting out the tube but it wasn't? now that I have "no pressure" it still dribbles out the same way?
am I missing something? did I hit my head too often?
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