360 Oil Pressure Issues

One of my fathers friends had mentioned to me before that it might have been an oil plug under the intake missing. I do not remember plugging any thing in the lifter valley before installing the intake. I did not know what he was talking about.

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Plug goes into the back of the driver's side lifter oil galley run. If not in there it just dumps oil back into the pan.

Get another oil pressure gauge on it and see what you got.

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Easy thing to do is cut your oil filter open with a tin snips and see what's in there. Excess foreign material in there is not a good thing.

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When all else checks out good, it's the rods, mains, and cam bearings that hold the good oil pressure.

Low oil pressure, bearings are letting too much oil by to keep the pressure up.

That dial indicator on the from damper is a good way to check for excess end play ware on the main thrust bearing.