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Selling my recently built Coronet. No corners cut in this car. Fresh 440 w/edelbrock heads. CA car retaining all orig sheet metal. All new wiring harnesses. B5 blue. Black int. Buckets. Hurst shifter. New carpet, headliner, seat covers, dash cover, Hedman ceramic hdrs with 3" ex thru Borla...
You were right. 2 bent pushrods on #8. 1 lifter popped and there went pressure. What causes this, too much rpm? I had 6000 chip in msd box, i will go to 5500.
At least it looks like the only damage so not too bad.
Will take covers off for a look. I have new pump in hand and about to get started. Thanks again. Will let u know.
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Will take covers off for a look. I have new pump in hand and about to get started. Thanks again. Will let u know. But if I bent a pushrod and lost a lifter it...
Havent pulled valve covers yet. Rocker shafts only get oil at 2 points on cam rotation and dont want to spin motor to find them. Keeping fingers crossed that new pump is the cure. I will know tomorrow.
Okay, spun primer with drill, no pressure shows on gauge. Removed oil pump, and no broken parts. Removed pressure spring bolt. Spring had no pressure up against bolt, is that correct? Piston under spring moved freely. Ordered new mellings HV pump, should have it today. For the hell of it, we put...
I got my primer today and we are removing pump tomorrow. I hope to find a problem in the pump. Will post results. I will spin the primer in there first to get a feel before removing.