No oil pressure after h/c install...help please

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Mar 20, 2008 | 05:37 PM

aaron653

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No oil pressure after h/c install...help please

we cranked it over with the coils unplugged and then started it up...waited a few seconds and the oil gauge didn't move...tried again and it still didn't move. the engine sounds fine..do you think its the oil sending unit?

Mar 20, 2008 | 05:40 PM

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could have left it unplugged or broken it.

did you remove the oil pump to replace the chain?

Mar 20, 2008 | 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jed.only

could have left it unplugged or broken it.

did you remove the oil pump to replace the chain?

yea we removed the pump..but if the o-ring was pinched we would still be getting some oil pressure

Mar 20, 2008 | 06:04 PM

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not entirely true, and you may not have seated the pickup tube entirely in the pump.

Mar 20, 2008 | 06:24 PM

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Agreed ^^^ if the sending unit is plugged in I would suspect the o-ring. How did you install the o-ring? There is a lip for the o-ring to sit on, if you pressed it down too far you will not have pressure.