The Preacher
11-21-2002, 05:08 PM
Jeep's all back together and fixed. I made the 60 mile round trip to town in her tonight and she ran great. This follows a long ordeal trying to figure out why after about 10 minutes of running my engine would start to clatter down low and I would lose power. It was all due to low oil pressure.
After dropping the pan and finding more than a coffee cup full of debris on the bottom, I was afraid the engine was toast. What I thought was metal engine parts was apparently bronken down sealer material. It was non-metallic and covered the bottom of the pan in the sump area and was caked on the pickup screen. I replaced the screen, cleaned the pan, re built the oil pump and wala! All better.
In the past, one thing that had bothered me was after changing oil & filter, the oil would always seem to get dirty real fast. It was due to all this junk in the bottom of my pan. As soon as I saw how caked up the pickup screen was, I became quite hopeful that I had found the source of my trouble.
One other indicator. I used to have a noisy lifter at startup. Guess what, no more lifter noise at all!
If my oil pressure guage would have been working, I would have known where to start from the beginning but it never has worked. Lesson to everyone, if your oil pressure guage does not work, fix it or replace it. The life of your engine depends on it.
"And they lived happily ever after" tongue.gif
End of story.
After dropping the pan and finding more than a coffee cup full of debris on the bottom, I was afraid the engine was toast. What I thought was metal engine parts was apparently bronken down sealer material. It was non-metallic and covered the bottom of the pan in the sump area and was caked on the pickup screen. I replaced the screen, cleaned the pan, re built the oil pump and wala! All better.
In the past, one thing that had bothered me was after changing oil & filter, the oil would always seem to get dirty real fast. It was due to all this junk in the bottom of my pan. As soon as I saw how caked up the pickup screen was, I became quite hopeful that I had found the source of my trouble.
One other indicator. I used to have a noisy lifter at startup. Guess what, no more lifter noise at all!
If my oil pressure guage would have been working, I would have known where to start from the beginning but it never has worked. Lesson to everyone, if your oil pressure guage does not work, fix it or replace it. The life of your engine depends on it.
"And they lived happily ever after" tongue.gif
End of story.