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Oil Pressure port issue/resolved

In the pic is the line supposed to be connected to the fitting on the passenger side? If the line is connected it may need to be bled to get the air out. Did you prime the engine with a drill motor & priming shaft rotating the engine by hand and watching the oil to the rockers?
 
It will have pressure from either of the back ports. If there is none something is wrong. Use a prime tool. Is there any at the rockers if you rotate it by hand slowly? If so the gauge could be bad. If there is no oil to the top and no p reassure you have a internal plug missing behind the right oil gallery or behind the timing cover.
Doug
 
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It always takes some time to get the oil up that little tubing but, the oil will compress any air in the line and read on the gauge.
You can bleed the air out by starting the engine with the gauge end of the tubing disconnected. No reason you can't test the gauge with air pressure either.
Mike
 
did you check to see if the fitting is plugged?
 
Oil is often drained out of a new engine after breakin. Are you sure there's oil in the pan. The oil on the rockers may be left over from the dyno runs.
 
Beside missing plug did oil pump lose it's prime? If someone left oil filter off for an hour or screwed on a filter that had a little oil it. Remove oil pump and put a little grease or heavy oil.
 
I sure wouldn't trust oil on the rockers as an indicator. Prime it and watch the oil get around the rockers, both sides. Maybe a bad gauge. You can feel on the drill motor when the oil pump is primed and forcing oil into all the needed places. After doing the priming, then check the fitting, try another gauge.
 
If the engine was run for 1/2 hour we can pretty much assume there are no plugs missing - particularly the one at the rear which would be leaving a nice puddle on the floor !!!
 
Assume nothing! There was a recent thread where the engine was run a half hour same symptoms. Forget if it was missing plug or lost pump prime.
 
Speaking of assumptions, you're all assuming there's oil in the pan !!
 
Engines tend to get loud running for a half hour with no oil, or oil pressure.
 
Open the port, spin the pump, and watch for the squirt...
 
How long ago did it run on the dyno? Pull off the oil line and blow air through it. That will tell ya if it's that. Pull the filter off and see if there's oil in it. Get a dang priming tool and don't start the engine anymore. If it was running with good pressure before, it should still have good pressure but sounds like something ain't right. Were you at the dyno when it was run and watched them pull it off when the session was over? If not, you have no idea what took place after the pull.
 
Guess ya missed that earlier post !!
went back and reread the whole thing..
Sounds like the OP started it for 2 seconds, no oil pressure, straight to the forumz....

Sometimes it takes a bit to get the pressure going.
I would, as most pointed out, spend a couple min and spin the pump. Slap the "dizzy" back in and fire it up .
 
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Ok .... enough of this .... I will get opinions and advice some other place. were not all Mopar experts.

Well if you had spent an extra ten seconds on the problem you wouldn't have wasted a lot of people's time. And for future reference: righty tighty, lefty loosy. Hope that helps !!
 
Well, that will teach a guy to come on a mopar forum and ask about a mopar engine issue, who the hell does he think he is anyway? Ok, let's all get back to yelling at clouds now.
 
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