ZACH 99 GST
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- Jul 15, 2015
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Memphis,
Tennessee
So the car has not been started in over a year and it seems like everything has been changed, but the only internal components swapped were cams, springs, retainers, and oil squirters out of a 1g 7 bolt for clearance. It’s finally time to start everything up so we go to prime it and it never gets oil pressure on the guage or the light. I ran a Mitsubishi part number MD132912 oil filter housing so I could use an external oil cooler. After continuously turning the motor over with the injectors unplugged with no spark plugs in I never got any oil pressure. The pickup tube was installed exactly how it was before the motor was taken out, there’s really no way you can do it wrong anyways. The idea that there was no oil pressure came from number one the light and the gauge not showing it and number two the oil cooler never got oil to it. So assuming something was wrong I started taking everything apart thinking no oil had been moved, but there was a quart missing when I drained it. Turns out that quart made it to the filter but never made it to the cooler which makes me believe it wasn’t making it to the sensors either. I’m not 100 percent sure how the oil flows chronologically through the housing. I might should add that this is a 6 bolt block. So, I was under the assumption that that housing would work on any year from everything I read in my research. Is that true, and or has anyone else run into this issue? Another thing that crossed my mind is does that aluminum housing have any plastic in it? Reason being, it took a lot of heat and a lot of effort to get the plug out for the turbo feed line and I don’t know if something could have been melted internally? The pump has 30k miles on it and the fact oil got to the filter leads me to believe there is nothing wrong with it or the pickup tube. Any ideas?