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Turbo 6 Justin
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okay three days and counting till the damn thing gets strapped to a trailer and goes down to the nats and we still can't get the oil pump to prime. Okay here is what we got. I believe it was a Poston high flow high volume whatever front cover new gears (larger) and so forth. we packed it with vasoline and tried priming it nothing. tried the suck the oil in the top cooler line about 3 times and got no pressure. and this is with a lot of drilling on the oil pump to give it time to get there.
What is curious is the factory oil light goes off but the autometer gauge that t's off from the same point does not move. there is oil in the clear autometer line and a bit of oil will come out of the turbo feed line but NOTHING gets to the rockers (we even did 'prime' the pushrods thing. when trying to prime it and turning it backward it colapses the oil bottle so I know it sucks (yeah aint that the truth) but it does not seam to be pushing with any pressure at all. Like I said it does move some fluid but definitly not at more than maybe 1-2 psi (enough perhaps to trip the stock idiot light but not move the autometer gauge) we also checked the autometer gauge and tubing on another vehicle and it is working just fine.
So what gives? is this the classic front cover hole not drilled out enough symptom? which I honestly don't remember looking at when it was installed.
tick tock goes the clock. I have today and tuesday to work on it then off to bowling green. Thank you for your advice.
What is curious is the factory oil light goes off but the autometer gauge that t's off from the same point does not move. there is oil in the clear autometer line and a bit of oil will come out of the turbo feed line but NOTHING gets to the rockers (we even did 'prime' the pushrods thing. when trying to prime it and turning it backward it colapses the oil bottle so I know it sucks (yeah aint that the truth) but it does not seam to be pushing with any pressure at all. Like I said it does move some fluid but definitly not at more than maybe 1-2 psi (enough perhaps to trip the stock idiot light but not move the autometer gauge) we also checked the autometer gauge and tubing on another vehicle and it is working just fine.
So what gives? is this the classic front cover hole not drilled out enough symptom? which I honestly don't remember looking at when it was installed.
tick tock goes the clock. I have today and tuesday to work on it then off to bowling green. Thank you for your advice.