Thread: Gen V oil pressure issues

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is one of the 3 valley plugs out ? there 1/8 plug and come off the cam bearings if one is off your going to drop psi here a photo of the plugs . front plugs under the timing cover could be out you will have very low oil but no upper oil to rockers and if valley plugs is out main bearing would not look to hot ? 10psi hot is ok and45 long as oil psi builds and not drops .the rear main caps have a poor machine finsh .on the block it is choppy they are cut for a O ring to seal cap better to the poor finsh as oil pass thru the main cap cuts down on oil leaking .i do not know if any of this will help you did not say how big you oil clearance is if big it is going to be low . you did not say were your at with the new pump for PSI but on big size oil clearance past 003.+ loose rods side clearance .cam under size on journals ?your going to be low on oil PSI with new pump and you 25 idle and 65 that is just big clearance and that will not hurt any thing .what oil Wt are you running ? had a customer had some thing going on like on a short block he built. this but was abit lower psi and would not build much psi he had studs on the mains and all six point nuts held the pump off the base of the main cap just a wee bit . letting oil to pass a 12 point nut fixed it