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illdrag
03-27-2005, 09:08 PM
is spinning a rod bearing common for a 5.0? car has been losing oil pressure at idle slowly (thought the gauge was wacky) it has 10 -15 ..psi at idle roughly and 50-60 off idle but started making noise last night around 1300-2200rpm under load (sound like a plymouth reliant or horrizon haha) motor was rebuit not to long ago w/ new oil pump gonna check in to it more w fastfiveliter but wanted to get more imput

guess it was to much of this after gettin jimmy c to do my rear hahaha :bangbang: :mmm:
fast88
03-28-2005, 06:04 PM
Anything is possible with these motors......you just gotta check the dumb stuff first...Are you running a real thin oil??....another common problem i see is if the oil pump pickup gasket isnt right youll see a drop in pressure....motor running hot??...could be anything really..ya just gotta poke around and hope for the best.
illdrag
03-28-2005, 09:19 PM
no its done took the filter off and its got copper glitter in it :roll:
i used castrol syntech 10w-40 with less than 100miles on oil change?
is this a coincedence?
frdfandc
03-28-2005, 10:41 PM
Hard to say if its a coincedence or not, however, I would not run synthetic oil in a motor that only has 100 miles on it. Once you get your bearing problem fixed, run regular dyno oil for at least 3,000 miles before switching to synthetic.
illdrag
03-29-2005, 01:15 PM
no the moter was broke in the oil change was a 100 miles old
my95GTHO
03-29-2005, 01:39 PM
how many miles does the motor have on it??
illdrag
03-29-2005, 07:23 PM
1000 maybey 1500
frdfandc
03-30-2005, 05:58 PM
I still wouldn't have put synthetic oil on that motor till at least 3k miles.
illdrag
04-03-2005, 06:40 PM
well regardless it spun just about all the bearings in the motor rod,main and :thumbdown: cam
fast88
04-03-2005, 08:36 PM
that sucks ass :shock: