Lucky the Smiling Pirate
roadkill
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2005
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
If you find that you are having an oil pressure issue, you can now add a second item to the checklist of likely causes besides "unseated oil pump orings."
Apparently suction on the oil pumps is strong enough that if say...a piece of your dipstick handle broke off and feel down the dip stick tube, the pump WILL suck that up. Not only that, but it will suck it up and unseat the catch screen.
Oh, and that plastic? There's every chance in the world that since it was small enough to get down the tube, and big enough to create the force needed to blow past the catch screen, that it's in that sweet spot to then get past the gears INSIDE the oil pump, and then just slightly wedge open the pressure relief valve inside the pump.
Neat, huh?
And with that all said, I really still don't have any idea why people can't seem to seat their oil pump orings correctly. Those were just fine
edit// thanks tamnakz and thelostartof for being there for motivation
Apparently suction on the oil pumps is strong enough that if say...a piece of your dipstick handle broke off and feel down the dip stick tube, the pump WILL suck that up. Not only that, but it will suck it up and unseat the catch screen.
Oh, and that plastic? There's every chance in the world that since it was small enough to get down the tube, and big enough to create the force needed to blow past the catch screen, that it's in that sweet spot to then get past the gears INSIDE the oil pump, and then just slightly wedge open the pressure relief valve inside the pump.
Neat, huh?
And with that all said, I really still don't have any idea why people can't seem to seat their oil pump orings correctly. Those were just fine
edit// thanks tamnakz and thelostartof for being there for motivation
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