Hello guys!
Waiting for contracters to connect water and utilities to stang :-( sad but.. hahaha
Really, I am affraid to drive.
Dissapointed with determination in basement I wait for... dunno what.
As allready said, some guys in USA can't kill that 302 making burnouts at 6000rpm and I had it three times apart just to loose oil pressure after rebuild... where is the luck, justice, force, God or whatever You want to call it???
Now with 5w40 semi + Liqui moly MOS2, I have 40psi when I touch accelerator, but like 15psi on hot idle.
Oil pressure still raises with RPM I can see that in drive, but at idle it drops.
No sounds except maybe a little louder rockers, but in this mental stage I am not subjective person to talk about resonable sounds. I hear more then I should.
As I'm thinking about it, it must be some hairline crack in block. I loose pressure with hot engine and oil. If block is cracked paralel with oiling channel, it wide opens when hot and loss of pressure occurs.
Or is it a leaky hyd. lifter? Allhtru they are new, is there a chance that 1 or 2 pcs are throwing out oil unrestricted?
I saw two of them squirting oil at priming engine on stand, but I ignored thinking oil pump pulled air (there were only 2qt for priming inside at the time)
I checked assembly pictures for 10 times, and can't find a problem. Only thing I saw as a potential suspect is rear gallery oil plug (under intake) PUNCHED IN MORE THAN FACTORY ONE WAS. But if I am right, that one would affect only lifters...
So as I think, I have half an engine brand new, so I pinpoint really only options left after researching pictures of assembly, parts and possible failures:
a) hydraulic lifters
b) rear lifter galley oil plug under intake punched in too deep and restricting flow
c) cracked block
Any of You guys willing to help and sell and ship a long or short block to Europe?
Where I could buy for example reproduced/renewed shortblock with shipping to Europe?
Thnx!