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Cool Zr2
I went on an off-roading trip this past weekend and had a little problem, it is VERY strange and yet I was lucky enough to catch it early.
Ok, SOMEHOW a rock punched a hole in my filter (see pic below), and I had to run to K-mart and get a filter and a couple quartes of oil, now I have no Idea if that event started my problem or even had anything to do with it.
Later, I smacked my front x-member on a rock, really, really hard, didn't do any frame damage or skid damage, in fact, you can't even tell it happened...... and noticed after that if I ran it about 3500 RPM for more than about 10 seconds it would lose oil pressure. Right away I dropped the oil and got my pen magnent out, and sure as poop, there was my pickup tube laying at the bottom of my pan. Don't ask me why it came out, I have no idea, but it did.
Any way, I run Mobil 1, and I know for sure that I ran it high and with out oil pressure a couple of times before I noticed the idiot lights, (kinda hard to see them with your head out the window watching the body/wheels from hitting rocks/trees). Now, I filled it back up with oil, and drove it home 250 miles with no problem, the motor ran fine, and I made sure to keep the RPM's low to avoid sucking down the oil to the pump.
My question is, with mobil 1, it ran no longer then 3 seconds at a time with out pressure, (guess, but no longer), did I do bearing damage or something else? Like I said it runs like normal, but If I have to tear into the bottom of truck/motor to replace the pickup tube (and dipstick) I would like to know your opinion if I should just take the motor out and have it rebuilt to save me the hastle. Also, the oil was clean, no flakes, and I dropped it after I got home and it is clean also.
I talked to a good friend who has built SBC after SBC and said that with the synthetic I should have nothing to worry about, becasue it virtually eliminates friction and even without pressure the oil in the mains would be just fine untill the pressure came back.
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