clockman666
Donation Time
This is my first post here, I am stumped!!! So this past spring I was driving my '67 Alpine, and all of a sudden I lost oil pressure and the engine started knocking. I immediately shut it of and pulled to the side of the road. I had it towed to my garage, and pulled the oil pan off and there was a little bit of metal shavings in there. What had apparently happened was my oil pan was leaking so over the winter I had replaced the gasket. When I initially took the pan off I had thought I had cleaned it out well, but I guess behind that baffle there was all kind of sludge and when I cleaned it, it broke up the sludge but didn't come out when I was cleaning it. So after I changed the gasket, and put fresh oil in, that sludge had come out and completely plugged up the oil pump intake screen. And thats how I lost the pressure. So now when I try to start it again it cranks but it won't start at all. While I'm cranking the oil pressure is building up. But I get nothing. I have fuel, and spark. I thought maybe I put the oil pump back in wrong, but I read the manual again and everything seems to check out, but it seems like the time is way off. I did a compression test, and I have 115 cyl. 1, 120 cyl. 2, and 140 in cyls. 3 and 4. Any Ideas???? I was having a really hard time getting her to start cold, before all this happened. But once warmed up she would fire right away. But it would take like 10 minutes of cranking letting it sit and cranking again to get it finally going. But like I said that was before I lost the oil pressure. I have changed plugs, wires, coil, ballast, relay, starter, points, condenser, and distributor brush. I did put a webber on it when I was initially having the problem starting it. That did nothing to help.