cam and intake on

fiveohpatrol · 09-10-2001, 03:10 PM

same thing happened to me in May, i blew a head gasket right after i put my intake on, then after porting the heads and driving it for 30min i lost all oil pressure, but my dumb *** drove it home and ruined the bearings and wore the rings too
i got home, pulled the distributor and put a 1/4" drive 1/4" socket on some extensions and put it on the pump driveshaft and it turned freely by hand, so something got in there and locked the pump up
i found a very small piece of metal that had somehow gotten into the pump, the only thing i could think of is the little metal spacers on the valve cover gaskets
hopefully you shut it down as soon as you lost pressure so you dont have to go through the same crap i did

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88 Notch, B&M Ripper, 3.73's, Ported E7's, Explorer int. w/ ported lower, pulleys, 1.7RR's, BBK headers, off-road H-pipe, flowmasters, subframes, 65mm TB, March ram air ,MSD coil, U/L control arms, 155lph f/p, Crane Adj.FPR, Nitto drag radials, best 1/4--> 13.76@101.4 on a 2.17 60ft

09-10-2001, 03:10 PM	#2
fiveohpatrol I'd rather be basketweaving Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 2,551	same thing happened to me in May, i blew a head gasket right after i put my intake on, then after porting the heads and driving it for 30min i lost all oil pressure, but my dumb *** drove it home and ruined the bearings and wore the rings too i got home, pulled the distributor and put a 1/4" drive 1/4" socket on some extensions and put it on the pump driveshaft and it turned freely by hand, so something got in there and locked the pump up i found a very small piece of metal that had somehow gotten into the pump, the only thing i could think of is the little metal spacers on the valve cover gaskets hopefully you shut it down as soon as you lost pressure so you dont have to go through the same crap i did ------------------ 88 Notch, B&M Ripper, 3.73's, Ported E7's, Explorer int. w/ ported lower, pulleys, 1.7RR's, BBK headers, off-road H-pipe, flowmasters, subframes, 65mm TB, March ram air ,MSD coil, U/L control arms, 155lph f/p, Crane Adj.FPR, Nitto drag radials, best 1/4--> 13.76@101.4 on a 2.17 60ft