Topic: fuel filter swap

[bammerman]

Thanks for the info guys, I will let my mechanic know of you ideas.

[bammerman]

Mechanic coming over and will most likely be pulling the engine due to limited space here in my garage.  I let him know about the knock and no oil pressure (on manual gauge) after the new pump but on oil sending unit it moves (which is odd).  I did find out the wire off the engine doesn't snap on the sending unit and is barely making contact so the sending unit or wire is off the old 2.5 I think (but most likely wrong).

[bammerman]

Another update.

Need to pull pan and head :(
There is no oil on the valves but pressure at the filter and the sending unit.  Blockage or break.  I have another block ready to go, but will be f'in pissed if I spent all that money at a fail of a machine shop

[sharpxmen]

pulling the head won't help you getting the oil pressure up though, should try and see if there's pressure loss somewhere and do the plastigage test to see if the crank is out of spec.

[bammerman]

Do any of you know where I can find a diagram of the oil passageways?  I checked the rod bearings and they are find.  I have a service manual but says nothing about the passageways or at least under engine it isn't there where it talks about oil pump and pan.

[sharpxmen]

how did you check the rod bearings? what about the main ones? it's not necessarily how they look but the clearance is mainly the issue, since they are new and you only put 10 miles on the motor I would expect they look just fine regardless.
EDIT: have you tried a new oil filter? i had an issue once with a new one that had a stuck or bad valve and was barely letting oil passing thru, if you replaced it already then disregard - long shot but you never know.

here you go, hope this helps.