Low Oil pressure

[cobalt123]

any chance of getting a vid?

 

[outtamymind]

which you would. pull your tb and all that and make sure there is no massive amounts of oil in there, a little bit is normal. if there is massive amounts of oil in the manifold then simply get an oil catch can and that should solve your problem.

 

[Cobalt Tom]

of the smoke? i can try i suppose...sunday would be soonest day for that

only reason i say no to oil in intake and mani is cause i have see through blue tubing for the catch can and nothing there or in the catch can that i can tell...

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which you would. pull your tb and all that and make sure there is no massive amounts of oil in there, a little bit is normal. if there is massive amounts of oil in the manifold then simply get an oil catch can and that should solve your problem.

already have one haha, forgot to mention that, sorry lol

 

[outtamymind]

hmmm. pull your spark plugs and shine a flashlight in the spark plug gally and look at the top of your pistons. is there oil residue on them. mine at the moment are so clean that i can still see the p/n stamped into the top of the cylinder

 

[Cobalt Tom]

ill look, but i know when i had the head off they had black on them...like just char type stuff...

 

[outtamymind]

ya mine are a nice gold color. i got about 58,000km on them a fair amount of racing and aggressive street driving. running 91 octane and a fuel system cleaner once a year.

 

[Cobalt Tom]

this is what the old head looked like:

and here is what the block and pistons looked like before cams and all were installed...:

 

[outtamymind]

ya see the black means you were burning either a lil rich or a lil oil i can't remember, white means burning coolant. the brownish gold color is where you want to be at

 

[Cobalt Tom]

ya see the black means you were burning either a lil rich or a lil oil i can't remember, white means burning coolant. the brownish gold color is where you want to be at

it was probly from when we were miss timed and trying to start it....it backfired from fuel in the cyll a few times, but its run fine since...
although looking at those would not do good cause everhting was installed to them like that....

what could i look or on the plugs

and btw, i know im running a tiny bit rich right now...

 

[Cobalt Tom]

new filter in, didnt drive enough to be 100% sure, but it looks like the oil pressure is a lil bit better...will find out later today if im fixed or not.

 

[outtamymind]

well if you pull your plugs and look in the holes you can see the top of your cylinders. and when you took your filter out, on the bottom where it goes to a point there is a green o-ring, was the entire o-ring there or only half of it?

 

[Cobalt Tom]

well if you pull your plugs and look in the holes you can see the top of your cylinders. and when you took your filter out, on the bottom where it goes to a point there is a green o-ring, was the entire o-ring there or only half of it?

ill have to check, its in the garbage at home...but i didnt check on the last one (changed it about a week ago)...

 

[outtamymind]

ya i've seen the lil o-ring break in 2 and get stuck in one of the oil gallies and cause problems.

 

[Cobalt Tom]

i dont have my old one...that mau have happened...that could be a prob...

 

[outtamymind]

yes a big problem. to get it, it requires you to tear apart the motor and find it and remove it. but leave that as a last resort. do your leak down test first and all the other stuff first before you go tearing apart your engine.

 

[Cobalt Tom]

pulled intake yest and no oil or much residue if at all on the tb, did a compression test, all tested each twice and across the board i got 216-219psi...no more then 3 psi variance between cyl, although when i pulled the plugs i found oil had pushed up around the threads and had some on where the plug seats...and you could def tell by looking at the cyl head its been burning (black ontop). Top of spark plugs was grayish white

im thinking leak down, as this would give full compression still, but leg oil leak onto the valves and into the cyl while keeping compression

but my thought is that wouldnt effect oil pressure ya?? cause that would come from right under the vavle cover, by the cams??? and that area is actually under a bit of a vaccum cause of the vent to the intake??? or am i incorrect there...

anywho...thats what im thinking cause if it were piston rings i should show low compression and i dont, and really only other 2 things are pushing oil into intake (not happening) or past valve seals...

 

[outtamymind]

do you got a pick of the color of the plugs. cuz if they are white thats usually a sign of burning coolant

 

[Cobalt Tom]

its not like white white, its a grayish darker color and smelled of burning oil