............

So got the thing put back together, and the main tick is gone, but It sounded louder than I remembered, glanced over and saw the oil lite on ..................


So now I have a new symptom and this is getting old.. out of the 5 months I have owned this thing i have only had it on the road a few times lol I was looking forward to driving it to work this week.


Anyways, so I replaced the 2 rockers and pushrods... re-assembled everything and tried to start, and found this


Yes, there is oil, no I didn't let it idle for a half hour while i was trying to figure it out lol so i'm hoping I can figure out what the heck is going on here.......



The only other thing I did change was the belt routing.... they had it running from alt->ps->waterpump prior.... can't imagine that would do anything with the oil system

 

Sorry to say but drop the oil pan and looky at the pick-up screen. I'll bet a buck it's nearly blocked off.

Lift frame leaving wheels on ground, drain oil from pan, loosen/remove pan bolts, let pan rest on drive gear/axle, unbolt pickup tube, drop, have a healthy look at what you put there.

 

I can do it again .... was hoping there'd be a different option since I just cleaned the snot out of it few weeks back as someone suggested when I had the pan off for the tranny swap hard to imagine the thing plugged that quickly (when it was runnin before i started workin on the valves it was fine..)

This seems like the starting point for whatever follows i suppose lol

 

It's the jumping off point.......

Maybe the pick-up's laying in the pan....? Normally it doesn't take much "stuff" to clog up the screen and with you fiddling up top there's a pert near chance somethings in it.

 

Fair enough, tis what I had figured, was hoping there was a different way

If the pickup is in the pan I will be rather upset, as I did pull it and loctite it last time i was in there


Thanks again

 

Recheck your belt routing first. Check it against the RAVE diagram.
What do ya know, I'm working on my truck today too!!!!

 

Hey I'd trade places. I'm working a 12 hour shift albeit it's a REALLY EASY 12 hour shift (2X pay) but I'd rather be dropping a pan any day than sitting here poking a keyboard in the eyes and wondering if your ever going to get that thing going.....

I don't want to hear any whining! I'm not on dial-up at work..... really is a holiday.

 

Hahah point taken

I did give it another try .... this time the oil light turned off and it got noticably quieter .. still some noise from the pass side but wondering if my visual inspection didn't show somethin. obviously all the parts are worn from over 100k miles (think its 160 on there?...) but I could live with a lil noise till i get to re-doing the heads.

The OBD2 doesn't pass oil pressure in these things by chance does it? I'm thinking I need an external gauge I'd love to make sure oil is actually at the right pressure before i destroy the rest of the engine.


Aside from trying to figure out how to lift the beast again its not too bad a job. last time with the bottle jack was a real pain

Think the next thing on my list should be a pressure gauge of some sort.. any recommendations?


Edit:

The belt routing now is what the RAVE showed, not sure why they had it routed differently before

 

Oil PSI not sent to OBDII, it is just a warning light switch.

 

Multi use gauge at NAPA for $39.