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Well guys, I found my culprit. Turns out, it was my needle and seat. Rubber-tipped needle had begun to come apart after 3 years of ethanol gas usage. I robbed one off my old 1920 carb. I also robbed a check ball, because I had lost mine at some point. It is a little surprising how much can be...

I can’t afford to just Willy Billy start buying new pumps and hope to god that it works the way it’s supposed to. They don’t even put that information on the box. So like if the catalog says it’s for my engine that’s all I get. What I can afford to do is by a cheapy pressure regulator and set it...

Welp I hooked up my pressure gauge and I’m pushing 8lbs just from the starter. Not even running. So sounds like it’s regulator time.

That’s an interesting anecdote. I have an electric pump already so maybe I’ll just shell out and buy a pressure regulator and not worry about it again.

Wrong. Tried to drive it to get some oil for the daily and it did it again. The floats are definitely boned. Ordered a NOS set on eBay.

Thanks for this. I may actually do that at some point. It turned out that there was a brass piece inside that had fallen out of its slot during my last endeavor into the carb. I took it all apart and put that piece back in and now it’s fine

Hey guys. I’ve been having some carb issues lately and I’d like to see what you guys make of it. I got a Slant six with a Holley 1945 1bbl carb. Recently, it died on the side of the road, just pouring gas down the manifold. Had to readjust the floats on the side of the road and get it home. It...

We decided to install the new pump with a mechanical gauge. Ran the hose through the hole in the firewall where the A/C drain hose would be if I had functional A/C. We’re averaging about 65lbs throughout the little cruise I just went on.

I’m assuming that the “reading” I’m getting is just BS voltage fluctuations from being grounded to the block or just hanging loose or being grounded to the block but with grease between.

Funny story… it turns out that I don’t have an oil pressure sending unit. At all. The wire that goes to it is cut and was dangling down against the greasy block. There’s a plug in the pump where the sending unit goes, and my ‘77 block doesn’t have a hole for the one that goes in the galley...

My dad actually floated that idea out there. I’ll have to check into it

Yeah. That’s fair. I’ll see if I can’t get my hands on my brother’s gauge before I do the pan. It’s just so frustrating. I’ve never had issues with the oiling system in the car. Never even had that light come on for a second until just a couple weeks ago. It could be the pickup. It could be the...

Yeah Charlie pointed that out. I’ll probably drain some oil out tomorrow. My dad is gonna come help me out and I’m gonna drop the oil pan and see if the pickup screen is plugged up, and probably just replace the oil pump entirely while I’m down there. But since the pan has to come off I’m gonna...

Worse comes to worst I’ll drain a little oil out tomorrow. It’ll be fine. I think my dad and I are gonna put a new oil pump on it tomorrow.

Idk man. It’s bigger than all the other ones that are “stock” according to all the parts stores.

My brother has a manual gauge and I’m gonna try and pick it up from him tomorrow and check it. I’m also gonna be tracing wires to see if I’m just having a wire issue.

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I’m not two quarts over full. I put a quart in to bring it up level and a quart to fill the filter, because the filter was dry. So by the end of the deal, the dipstick is reading level on the full mark.

Because even though I just put 5qts into it, it was still a good bit low, also, I have a high capacity filter on it.

No I didn’t, but I need to. Moving that cover didn’t help my leak at all. Made it worse. I’m ordering one now. The PCV is hooked up but I don’t know if it’s working or not. I assume it is, because there’s no big plumes of smoke coming out of the exhaust.

Okay so quick update. I filled it up after the flush. I put in 6qts of 10w-30 and 1qt of Heavy duty Lucas stabilizer. Ran it and let it warm up. Sounded nice and smooth. I tried to take it around the block and no sooner than I get out onto the street, the oil light comes on again. I immediately...

Okay a quick update. I drained everything out and flushed it with new oil until fresh oil was all that came out then I plugged it up and filled it. I popped the back cover off the pump to drain what was left of the old thing oil out of it too. New filter. I guess we’ll see what happens. As far...

Okay, so I’ve tried the oil burning test. Held a butane torch up to it and it just makes it run of the dipstick, but it doesn’t catch fire. So I guess the problem lies not with gas being in the oil, but rather with a sort of circulatory issue.

Well now that the morning has come, I’ve checked it again, and the oil level sits just below the full line. Before I drove it yesterday it was just above the full line. So the oil level hasn’t changed a lot, so I’m thinking the oil leak isn’t all that severe. Im headed to the store right now but...

Correct. Another point worth mentioning is that I haven’t driven it since I replaced the oil and fuel pump until today. I only moved it from one parking spot to another. So since the leak is on the oil pump, it is very possible that I’m just puking oil down the road, but since I haven’t been...

To answer your question, I can’t really tell. Every time I stick the dipstick in and pull it out, I get an oily residue on the stick, but nothing that drips off the end. When I wipe the residue off on my fingers, it appears clear but has some traces of black in it. It feels oily. But that’s...

Thanks for the replay. I’ve been on the phone with my dad about it and he agrees with you. I know the back side (plate) of the oil pump leaks a bit. One thing I mentioned to my dad is that once upon a time (a couple years ago) I ran this engine without a valve cover and it was flinging oil all...

Hey guys. Twice now, my oil pressure light has come on on my way home from work, and i find that my oil is all thin and smells of gas. I can’t figure out why. I replaced my fuel pump last week and changed the oil and now it’s doing it again. Any ideas why? It’s a mechanical fuel pump. I don’t...

Yeah that’s an exciting prospect cause I really didn’t want to have to pull the oil pump until I’m ready to rebuild the motor. The pump works fine. It’s just having trouble because the oil has been thinned out by gas lol. I had to buy gasket material and make my own gasket(pump to block) because...

Hey, thanks! I’ll have to get one.