Barry Schwartz wrote:
> Your low oil pressure IS a problem but your looking in the wrong area. The
> thrust washers have nothing to do with maintaining oil pressure. You could
> take them out all together and your oil pressure would not change one bit
Wait a sec... If the crank moves forward and back freely, wouldn't
that allow more oil to drop from the main bearings? The journals
are fixed in the block, and thus crank movement would allow oil to
drop back to the pan off the crank. You're saying that this happens
anyway, and thus the end float doesn't change the oil pressur a bit.
> Your oil pressure is detirmined by the
> volume of the pump, the oil pressure bypass spring,
> viscosity of the fluid, and the running clearances of the engine a
> change in any one of these can cause a difference in pressure.
Humm. I wonder if the cam I put in there could have bad tolerances
on the bearings. That would stink... Is the oil pressure in the
gallery put on my gauge before or after the cam gets oil?
Thanks,
-Scotty '75TR6
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