Thread: New guy with an oil pressure question!!!! HELP

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for oil as how many QT of oil you can put in the pan will not matter much as long as its not over filled so lets say you put 4 qt in the pan then filled the filter .say the pan took 5 or6 QT to read full. it.s still going to get oil to pick up as the oil pump pickup is only off the pan bottom 3/8 so long as it has oil its going to get oil PSI some guy get all fancy with traps . and baffles that fine to a point but that really is not your problem less i did read this wrong? the pick up not weld on can move or if pickup fell off. it can not read any oil PSI and pick up is not welded on it can suck to the bottom of pan as well . i seen many pickups suck the pan up were it will wear screen marks on the inside of the pan from pulling the bottom of the pan by draw of the oil pump if to close to bottom of pan . it is not uncommon for me to weld used steel pans over time the pan sump can crack from this . you could have other things going on as well the bypass in the oil pump could be hang open from a small chunk of junk dry cranking the engine is a big No NO as you will tear the bearing s out if you did not start that by now may be a good ideal to pull number #1 main and rod bearing and check this . prime the engine with a primmer . and not dry crank it to check oil PSI