You said it was a fresh rebuild, what were the main and rod clearances? What's the oil pressure do while you're driving?
Herb Lumpp http://users.adelphia.net/~hlump/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:18 PM To: The Chevelle Mailing List Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] LOW OIL PRESSURE Electric guage...no kinked line. But you may have put teflon on the sender threads...a piece of that in the sender can make the guage read as low as 0. I keep a spare mechanical guage around just to test things. Hopefully it is the guage or sending unit. Walt ----- Original Message ----- From: Mikey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, May 9, 2006 3:50 pm Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] LOW OIL PRESSURE > Go with Eddie......we had the same problem & it turned out to be a > pinchedoil line to the guage, I cut off the bad section > ,reinstalled & it worked > great. > > > > Mikey > > > > -------Original Message------- > > > > From: Eddie Bumgarner > > Date: 05/09/06 15:31:17 > > To: The Chevelle Mailing List > > Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] LOW OIL PRESSURE > > > > Check you gauge first, sometimes the gauge will be defected then > check your > oil pressure with another gauge, if it still remans low then seek > professional help. It could be inside your oilling passages. good > luck Eddie > 66ss conv. > > > > "Jimmy C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I put the chevelle on the road last thursday ,been driven around > town I put > about 75 miles freash rebuild, 454ci mild comp cam ,easy miles > (3500rpm max) > with 4 speed trans, everything was great. went to put it into the > garage and > noticed about 12 psi on the oil pressure gauge. shut it off > thinking I was > seeing things (praying). I started again fired right up no weird > noisesidled nice, still read about 12 psi. gauges are new electric > auto meter. is > there a simple answer to this, what should I be looking for? > Jimmy C. > > > > > > > > > > Eddie Bumgarner 66ss conv. > > > > > > Yahoo! Mail goes everywhere you do. Get it on your phone. > >
