Over the course of the last few months I’ve been plugging away at doing a bunch of work to my 60 series. Full decarb, new carb, recurved dizzy, replacing a bunch of leaking gaskets, overhauling the cooling system and just simplifying/cleaning up the bay as a whole. Brief background, 86 with 115k miles. Based on the records I got when I bought the truck the engine was rebuilt at around 60k….around 20 miles after getting an oil change the day before.
Truck is running again quite nicely, but I’ve got significantly more oil pressure now than I did prior to doing all this work.
I’ve verified the oil pressure reading with a manual gauge at the sender port under the filter, reads 59-60 psi at idle (currently set at 725ish RPM) and climbs to 70psi at 3000 RPM. I removed the high pressure bypass, verified its not stuck then put it back in. Running an OEM toyota oil filter and Rotella 5w40 oil.
My current thought is that maybe a piece of gasket fell into somewhere when replacing the side cover or front cover gaskets? Maybe a chunk is stuck in the oil pick-up? Is there anything in particular I should be looking for here? Something stupid I’m overlooking maybe? Looking for the help of the collective hive mind before I pull my oil pan off.
Truck is running again quite nicely, but I’ve got significantly more oil pressure now than I did prior to doing all this work.
I’ve verified the oil pressure reading with a manual gauge at the sender port under the filter, reads 59-60 psi at idle (currently set at 725ish RPM) and climbs to 70psi at 3000 RPM. I removed the high pressure bypass, verified its not stuck then put it back in. Running an OEM toyota oil filter and Rotella 5w40 oil.
My current thought is that maybe a piece of gasket fell into somewhere when replacing the side cover or front cover gaskets? Maybe a chunk is stuck in the oil pick-up? Is there anything in particular I should be looking for here? Something stupid I’m overlooking maybe? Looking for the help of the collective hive mind before I pull my oil pan off.