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What about the solvent to soak carburetors in? Years ago, you'd buy one of those 5 gallon cans of that Berryman brand "Carb-Dip" or something like it. I had a can but once when I ran the weed eater, a small piece of gravel got smacked by the trimmer line and it punched a...
I have a 6 quart Hemi pan, the stock 3/8" pickup and a windage tray. Cold pressure is quite good but drops like a rock once the engine warms up. I'll have to look at the pressures with the engine at high rpms. The 10 psi per 1000 rpms just seems low to me but when I had Chevys, that was common...
Perfect. ( well not really, sorry to hear that.) Brake clean the hole out, get the right bolt and washer, and red loctite it with torquing it to 55. This must not have been done previously.
Probably need some new valves too.
It's possible as mentioned, to to run into a lack of pressure at high rpm, resulting from not enough lubricant at the oil pickup point.
Done it myself. My buddy and I could hear my lifters. This was 30ish yrs ago. Found the solution and have never had that occur again.
My daughter now runs and...
Thank you ...all of you....i literally went into hibernation after finding out what happened. I am now i believe 30 days away from being back on the road...if i didnt already post this..while cruising along come to find out the cam gear bolt backed out and the chain broke and went into the oil...
You would think on a big block it would be pretty hard with only one cam bearing feeding oil, unless the cam is grooved. Stock pan and thick oil maybe.
Back in the late 70's I experienced it... 383, over 6K rpm's & the oil pressure dropped to the point the idiot light came on & the gauge confirmed it... Shut it down, a minute later fired it up & the oil pressure was fine....
The engine had a Crower 280 duration 500 lift cam & kit, hooker...