oil psi starts off at about 70psi until it warms up then stayed at 60 psi.
I will have to contact the machine shop for the clearances. Jimmy C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herb Lumpp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Chevelle Mailing List" <Chevelle-list@chevelles.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] LOW OIL PRESSURE
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
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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.
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