mystery oil pressure problem

stykthyn said:

sounds like someone was trying to spin the driveshaft with it and dropped it down the hole and left it rather than try to drop the pan.

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i'm thinking the same thing stykthyn, because when i went to turn the driveshaft when i took the dizzy out i used a shallow well socket and then realized that i had to use a deepwell socket to even reach the driveshaft, you have to be very carful when lowering that setup in and out of the dizzy hole, its very easy to bump the setup and knock a socket off in the abyss! lol! I have a old distributor i also modified many years ago to prime the motor but i had to do the extension and socket setup to see if oil was coming out of one of the galley holes, OH and another thing i almost forgot to mention is this motor breifly had a vortech on it before i traded for the car,and the oil pan has a plug in the side of it where the return was, one of the small chips that i found looked more like a shaving from either drilling a starter hole for the drain or taping the hole for the drain, man you cant be careful enough when you do that stuff!