Recent content by wes beem

So the 2 in a row brand new ones didn't work but when an old one was put in it works fine but something else is going on? Y'all got stock in these Chinese parts companies or what? People allover the place are running into these issues with car parts across all brands. The Junk has finally...

Dunno but ive been talking to folks i know about it and so far one guy has said he went through 6 fuel pumps, another giy went through 4 headlight switches, and another guys burned through 3 dimmer switches....i guess these new parts just have no QC and are trahs now....ill be grabbing...

YIKES

thats the interesting part, we got flow off both of the brand new pumps in a bucket of oil which is why i thought there was no way they were bad. Apparently they just arent pushing Enough.

The first pump was a no name cheap amazon one (not surprised it was bad) the second one was a melling.

SOLVED SOLVED SOLVED For ***** and giggles my friend rummaged through a scrap metal bin and found a 20+ year old used original one, installed it....truck instantly makes oil pressure and the chatter is gone. TWO BRAND NEW PUMPS IN A ROW, DIFFERENT BRAND, DIFFERENT PRICE TIER WERE GARBAGE NEW...

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we tried both ways during our trying to rule stuff out.

Update, we made a tool to spin the oil pump with a drill while 1 person turned the motor over, Still no oil. Repeated the process off and on for about 5 hours. Nothing. Not one drop. We pulled the oil filter, turned pump over with a drill and oil was running out of the filter hole steadily...

No. Everything on the motor was untouched and unmodified from factory. All we did was intake gasket timing chain and oil pump and put it back together. (With new gaskets ofc) heads were never off it either. We managed to get the oil drive gesr out today. Trying to find stuff to make a tool to...

because the first post was made when the issue first arose, and took more shop days and more dicking with it to get more information. Alot of people keep acting like i should just know what the hells going on, ive done THREE 360 builds and have never ever experienced an issue where just putting...

gonna try to pull the intake tomorrow to have a better shot at getting to it

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Also the oil drive gear wont come out of the top of the motor