Oil Pump HELP!!!

And also remember to mark the distributor position and rotor position before pulling it. :) Goes to Murphy's Law. (:

Approximately 9/18/03 22:51, DougW uttered for posterity:

Doesn't help. If you mark it, the first time you blink, Murphy's ghost moves the mark anyway. Just give up and realize that no matter how careful you are, and no matter in what position you install it, the first one *will* be wrong and you'll bust a knuckle fixing it.

I've pulled the dist. hooked up the drill I can hear the oil move but not up to the heads.I pulled the rockerarms no oil to the tower.about

1993 the last owner replaced the lifters cam and bearings but only has 600 miles on motor today could the front bearing be in beckwards???maybe I should just rebuild the whole mess but the motor sounds good???and only has 92,600 org. miles.

Sounds like the pump isn't primed or your turning it pump the wrong way.

Not sure if you can pour oil down the filter intake or if your going to have to drop the pan and pack the pump with valoline.

LOL!

How true!

I even try marking where the rotor stops turning as you pull up and still need two shots usually.

At least the OP's pump is under the timing cover, so can be packed that way.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Your pump is hooked to the timing chain isn't it? I don't know of any way to prime that short of removing the timing cover and packing it with Vaseline like my Haynes manual says.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

kmurphy wrote:

I tried the drill job on Jo's engine after she rebuilt it and no go.

It had to be primed.

Mike

"L.W.(ßill) Hughes III" wrote:

Over the years I've seen some real jewels as people tried to get a prime w/o pulling things apart - a couple even worked. The wildest one I saw was the guy who plugged up all the holes on the engine and pressurized it to force oil into the pickup tube (worked, but I think it leaked from every seal after that). The most practical was the guy who routinely ran a small tube into the filter supply hole and pumped it full before he put the filter on. AIR, this same guy always filled the filter before he put it on as well.

Helluva lot easier to remember to do it > I tried the drill job on Jo's engine after she rebuilt it and no go. >

the pump is pumping oil but not to the heads,not a drop!! I think it might be the cam bearing on the front. after looking at a book with drawing it seems that the first bearing has a notch in the front to let oil up to the head on the driver side don't know about the other side.this cammando has only been driven 2 miles at a time by an eldery man that gave it to me. he said that after he had the cam work done in

93'he parked it just to start it up every so often. can the bearings be put in wrong??? would that cause this trouble??

She did a good job overall.

Nothing like doing your first engine rebuild in a snowbank...

It is still running sweet too.

Priming it wasn't hard. Ran a tube in the oil filter base hole and primed it that way.

Mike

"L.W.(ßill) Hughes III" wrote:

If the bearing is blocking the oil from the head is there anyway to check it out befor I have to teardown the front end???

Not that I can think of except the obvious, no oil flow...

Mike

kmurphy wrote:

Not really, Bill. Most do something like that ONCE, many do it twice, some never learn. How the heck can you learn from your mistakes if you never make them???

I w> Yup, drink all you want, but leave a pail of water for the next

/me raises hand.

Grandma had one in the kitchen but that was when I was just a sprout. But all it took was a couple of glasses. Shoulda kept it when the house was sold, could use it on a cistern.