Guys,
I finally got everything buttoned up on my new cooling system and I fired her up, she ran for about 10 sec, then died. Oil pressure gauge (stock, not mechanical) has no reading. So of course it must be a bad connection to the oil pressure switch, right? Well I checked those and everything appears to have good conections. When I say everything, there are 2 units off the side of the block (3B) that have wires connecting to them. One, acording to my FSM, appears to be the oil pressure switch. The other is a round unit with 2 wires connected to it. One is a flat connection, the other is like a little disk that has a flat connector sliding over it....I don't know what the hell that is (can someone tell me?...see pic)
I even went so far as to replace 2 of the 3 connectors with new ones cause they looked rough. I checked the wires up the harness a ways and everything looks cool....still, no oil pressure on the gauge, still it runs for 10 sec then shuts down.
OIL COOLER FACTOR?
Now when I put in the new rad you might remember I removed an aftermarket (AXT) oil cooler that was installed behind my old rad. There were 2 hoses that ran from underneath the oil filter mount that I simply removed and plugged with flat plugs (see photo)...obviously one was a line from the oil filter mount TO the oil cooler, and one was a line FROM the oil cooler back to the oil filter mount. Now am I missing somehting here? Since this is an aftermarket oil filter mount supplied by AXT specifically for the oil cooler, did I F&^K something up by just plugging the two holes? It seemed logical to me that if both the in & the out lines were plugged, this would be no problem...Am I wrong??
One more thing...when it runs for the 10 seconds and then shuts down, its making a weird "hollow" noise after the engine dies....maybe I'm crazy but it sounds like things are spinning with no lubrication? Maybe I'm just paranoid?? Yes, there is plenty of oil in the pan.
Help!
I finally got everything buttoned up on my new cooling system and I fired her up, she ran for about 10 sec, then died. Oil pressure gauge (stock, not mechanical) has no reading. So of course it must be a bad connection to the oil pressure switch, right? Well I checked those and everything appears to have good conections. When I say everything, there are 2 units off the side of the block (3B) that have wires connecting to them. One, acording to my FSM, appears to be the oil pressure switch. The other is a round unit with 2 wires connected to it. One is a flat connection, the other is like a little disk that has a flat connector sliding over it....I don't know what the hell that is (can someone tell me?...see pic)
I even went so far as to replace 2 of the 3 connectors with new ones cause they looked rough. I checked the wires up the harness a ways and everything looks cool....still, no oil pressure on the gauge, still it runs for 10 sec then shuts down.
OIL COOLER FACTOR?
Now when I put in the new rad you might remember I removed an aftermarket (AXT) oil cooler that was installed behind my old rad. There were 2 hoses that ran from underneath the oil filter mount that I simply removed and plugged with flat plugs (see photo)...obviously one was a line from the oil filter mount TO the oil cooler, and one was a line FROM the oil cooler back to the oil filter mount. Now am I missing somehting here? Since this is an aftermarket oil filter mount supplied by AXT specifically for the oil cooler, did I F&^K something up by just plugging the two holes? It seemed logical to me that if both the in & the out lines were plugged, this would be no problem...Am I wrong??
One more thing...when it runs for the 10 seconds and then shuts down, its making a weird "hollow" noise after the engine dies....maybe I'm crazy but it sounds like things are spinning with no lubrication? Maybe I'm just paranoid?? Yes, there is plenty of oil in the pan.
Help!
I just didn't know that removing the adaptor plate was so easy....problem solved. Anyone need a used oil cooler? 
