Oil pressure
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Oil pressure
After tossing ideas around in my head for quite a while I started playing with the old 79 today. Hasn't been on the road for over a year
1. Got my diesel
2. shop that put exhaust on and sealed timing cover fired it up w/out oil....
Any how Ii'm holding 8-10 psi at idle, and goes as high as 50 during higher rpms. How low is still safe? I know I need to pull the engine back out and have the crank turned but don't want to do any more damage than is already done w/out having a spare engine sitting around. Which brings up another idea (found one about 3 hrs away on Ebay)
1. Got my diesel
2. shop that put exhaust on and sealed timing cover fired it up w/out oil....
Any how Ii'm holding 8-10 psi at idle, and goes as high as 50 during higher rpms. How low is still safe? I know I need to pull the engine back out and have the crank turned but don't want to do any more damage than is already done w/out having a spare engine sitting around. Which brings up another idea (found one about 3 hrs away on Ebay)
