Recent content by Tiha

New mains, everything plastigauge perfect. No oil pressure when hot. Has knock. Sounds deep like jackshaft or maybe balancer. Used engine must have been junk. Even though it ran great could not hear anything because cats were missing. Anyway I'm done. Gonna sell or maybe scrap because tired...

Well mains 1&2 did not even touch the plastigauge. 3&4 come in between .001-.0015 Rods all came in between .0015-.002. I swear the weirdest crap happens to me. The main bearings are all marked standard. Crank journals are the same best I can measure. Old mains all have same part number...

I could not build a priming device, well I could but I didn't want to destroy a socket. As I sat there thinking about it, either way I would end up pulling the pan again. So I got to thinking about it while dropping the pan, I only checked one rod and one main with plastigauge. That was all I...

Anyone ever ran into this? So I found the pressure relief is inside the pump. Under the pickup tube. never paid attention before. The HO pump did have this slug pushed out slightly and it had a plastic pickup tube. I did look close enough to see there was no visible gap. Wouldn't take much of...

Is the oil pressure regulator in the pump? Anyone have pickup tube problems? I am still stuck on bad oil pump. Again. Or faulty pickup tube Had bad cloyes timing components fail in 5k miles. Bad ones out of the box. Why should melling be any different? Had an electric fuel pump from summit...

I can check for the restrictor. This donor vehicle was a running driving 2003 or 2004 explorer that the transmission went out of. We pulled the valve covers checked it for sludge checks the timing chains and cassettes it looked great they weren't brand new but they look like they'd been...

Melling 328 ho oil pump. Now melling 128. Keep in mind it also did this with the oem pump. Oil filter was O'Reilly's cheap one This one is a carquest brand. Still cheap. I removed the oil pressure sender and put a T in there, adding the mechanical gauge. I am thinking it is cam clearances...

I have read stuff all over the internet and out of things to try. Put used engine in. Around 130 k miles. Was in running driving explorer but did not drive far or check oil pressure. The cats were gone so if knocking I would not have noticed. Before installing verified cassettes are good...