Thread: Oil pressure goes way high @ idle, then drops???

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electric or oil tube type gauge?

It is the stock electric gauge, which I know isn't the most reliable but since I changed a bunch of stuff I'm assuming it's something I did vs. the gauge. That said, I call this car Golden Gate, since I started fixing from the front, move to the back and repeat, just like the painters of the bridge!

what kind of fuel pump are you running. also what does the oil look and smell like.

Stock mech. pump, same one used before the upgrades, and the oil and filter are fresh.

Why 6 quarts?

While I am not really a Ford guy I have owned a few. One was a 1976 Ford F250 4x4, these trucks were the first of the Factory High Boy trucks. Came with a factory lift kit and such. This truck was equiped aith a 390 and it only had less than a 1,000 miles on it when one day driving down the freeway I toasted the motor. No warning no nothing, I wasn't paying any attention to the oil pressure gauge ( Factory one) it just quit. Got out and noticed there was oil every where. Had it towed back to the dealer and they fixed it under warranty, installed a new replacement engine. Two weeks later almost the same thing happened again, this time I noticed all of the smoke and got it stopped. Crawled under there and the oil filter was just hanging there, walked and got a new filter and oil and everything was cool until a week later and it blew another filter off. Now the explanation I got from Ford was that the check Valve was sticking and oil pressure built up very high and blew the filter. Ford replaced something ( Check Valve??) and it never happened again.

Now I don't know but could this maybe what you have going on?

RS