oil pump spring ?
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SouthernCal GN
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Use the yellow spring.
mikestertwo
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+1 yellow spring = 60lb.
87buickracer
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The yellow spring is 70lbs and the blue is 60lbs.I use the 60lb on my street motor and 70lb on race motor.just my 2 cents..
mikestertwo
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I just found the installation instructions for the oil pump kit. According to it the orange spring is 40#, the yellow is 60#, and the blue is 70#. But like 87buickracer said I have seen yellow springs give you 70# 
A couple of years ago I built an oil pump for my son's car using the yellow spring thinking it would give me 60#. When he brought the car up here this year so I could do some work on it I noticed his oil pressure was almost 100# cold and 70# hot 
I thought I had mistaken and put the blue spring in his pump. When I pulled the spring it was the yellow one . I pulled a yellow spring from another kit and put that one in and low and behold 60#'s of oil pressure hot 
It could be some kits have mismarked springs? Like bison said, verify with a gauge.
A couple of years ago I built an oil pump for my son's car using the yellow spring thinking it would give me 60#. When he brought the car up here this year so I could do some work on it I noticed his oil pressure was almost 100# cold and 70# hot I thought I had mistaken and put the blue spring in his pump. When I pulled the spring it was the yellow one . I pulled a yellow spring from another kit and put that one in and low and behold 60#'s of oil pressure hot It could be some kits have mismarked springs? Like bison said, verify with a gauge.
