Straight Six No Oil Preessure

if the rear external plug were missing there'd be quite a mess of oil on the floor & very quickly

Edited by Rockatansky - 27-August-2014 at 6:39AM

This is a picture of the front of the same 1954 through 1964 ford inline six cylinder engine block that i had posted five pictures above. I am posting this picture to show that the other picture of this engine (in the first/top picture above) is the rear/back of this same engine (not the front). Hopefully your rear oil gallery NPT Type of plug is not missing.

Edited by dave302 - 26-August-2014 at 9:26PM

The rear/Back of this 1941 through 1947 ford flathead inline 6 cylinder engine block appears to have two NPT Type oil gallery plugs installed on it.

Edited by dave302 - 26-August-2014 at 7:51PM

The rear/back of this 1997 through 1998 ford V6 engine has two NPT Type of oil galley plugs.

Edited by dave302 - 26-August-2014 at 10:09PM

thinking about it, cranking may not be fast enough to get much pressure showing on the gauge, but 5 or 10 seconds running the gauge should suddenly jump up with pressure, if not then something's wrong like the plug thing???

Left the valve cover off, installed the distributor, pulled the plugs out, removed the coil lead. Cranked the engine with the starter for 30 seconds (spinning faster with no plugs). Not a drop came up to the head. I'm a bit hesitant to try running it if there is no oil going up to the galley. Every engine I've built had the lifters soaking, pump primed, and everything lubed before assembly. no issues. This has been sitting a long time without ever being run. Could it need to run to get the lifters pumped up enough to feed the push rods? If I do and it starts pumping, then all is good. If not, then I've done some damage.

After using the drill, I can hear oil dripping down from inside the block - not a steady "pouring" sound in the timing chain area.

Some engines lube the distributor shaft off the lifter gallery. if the distributor isn't in, no oil to top end. I can't say whether this applies to small ford 6 though...

Cool

Hell, the rod is probably in the oil pan. They probably missed the oil pump and it dropped on down.

John, thanks! I will check that if the rod does not fix the issue. Hopefully, it will.

He said they started it but immediately shut it off when the pressure didn't come up. Hopefully.

Joe, here's the link...At the 8:50 mark

The engine is brand new. Pulled the valve cover - shiny and clean inside.

Found the first issue. Pulled the distributor and guess what? No oil pump rod from the distributor to the oil pump. Pulled the plugs and shined a light down the cylinders. Pistons are brand new and clean as a pin. Have a rod on order from O'Reilly's, be here Saturday.

I'll install that and see if it will prime.

Here's a picture of the inside.

John, where is this plug located under the timing cover? Thanks for all the input!

Make sure that that drive shaft for the oil pump is installed correctly. Assuming they have one.