how can i find out if my oil pump went out?

 

im not 100% sure but i think you'd know

 

i have this feeling that it went out but then again i dont think so...

 

hook up a gauge....
if you didn't have oil pressure you would have really, really bad noise when the car was running, IF it would run at all.


what makes you think the oil pump went?

 

^ i have rod knock and my oil as low but i wanna make sure it not the oil pump cuz i'm replacing the crank and bearings and i dont wanna replace everything to rind out its the pump and it hapen again...

oh yeah no gauge...

 

If your oil pump failed, the engine would be overheating and will seize after a few hours of running, probably less. No oil to the engine means death.

It would run, just not for very long. When they destroyed the cars for clunkers, they removed the oil and replaced it with silicate, then ran the engine. Typically after 15-20 minutes, the engine seizes. I have no doubt that it would run without oil, atleast for a little while.

 

hardened oil pump gears....thats all you need

 

hardened oil pump gears are expensive!!!

 

lol. i agree...im trying to decide if i should buy them for my build or not.

 

yeah i dont think i will get one unless i get some extra cash flow or something cuz 350 for a haredened oil pump gear wow...

 

we work with a heat treating company that hardens our cavities for our injection molds. I had one of my tool and die buddies slip my oil pump gears into one of the boxes, three weeks later they came back. treated and hardend.

 

hard gears won't help him now... sounds like you need new rod bearings first, and when I needed those my timing slipped just a hair and struck my intake valves... Even though they weren't bent I replaced them, my pistons, rods as well as bearings and crank. If you have to go through all that trouble might as well get it all done right the first time.

 

^my motor is already fully built