Low oil pressure
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Low oil pressure
Just finished my dod delete using stage 3 tsp ls3 camshaft and kept my stock oil pump and the o-ring was fine. I started it up for a second a few times to build oil pressure and get everything oiled properly, but the low oil pressure light keeps coming up. Do I just need to keep letting it run for a second to build oil pressure? The oil pump was just fine and the inside was perfect no issues.
Re: Low oil pressure
Did you block off the bypass in the oil pan? Did you replace the DOD valley cover with one that blocks off the lifter oil towers?
And a dumb question, is the pressure sensor plugged in? Try a new sensor? Is the engine noisy? I'd connect an analog gauge to see actual pressure.
And a dumb question, is the pressure sensor plugged in? Try a new sensor? Is the engine noisy? I'd connect an analog gauge to see actual pressure.
2011 Caprice PPV, former RCMP test vehicle, never put into service
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Re: Low oil pressure
And if you replace the sensor, there's a screen in the port for that sensor that sometimes gets gummed up. Carefully pull it, clean it and reinstall it before you install the new sensor.Mooseman wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 2:07 pmDid you block off the bypass in the oil pan? Did you replace the DOD valley cover with one that blocks off the lifter oil towers?
And a dumb question, is the pressure sensor plugged in? Try a new sensor? Is the engine noisy? I'd connect an analog gauge to see actual pressure.
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Pearland, Texas
2012 Caprice 9C1
1992 B4C 1LE Camaro
2018 Tahoe PPV (her car)
1995 DGGM Impala SS
1985 Firebird - 310 LS1 C Prepared autocross car.
1980 Bluebird Wanderlodge
And some others
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