Tick, Tick, Tick, Ditto..

[(goldfish)]

Prox's thread makes me fess up to my poor 280zx's engine problems. It's stock as far as I know, I've only had it 3yrs. now, wow that long. All of a sudden I started have low oil pressure. The read light on the gage was on at idle and up until about 4k rpms. I got a trusty Harbor freight oil pressure gage and got that adapted and it was reading about 10 psi@ idle and would not increase even at 3k rpms. I didn't want to push it farther with such low oil pressure. After replacing the oil pump, and getting the timing figured out, I now get a loud ticking from the bottom of the engine. Quite loud with the stick on the oil pump. I haven't gotten the stick on the block per say, the car is fully equipted and on ramps, not to much room under there.

 

Any Ideas?

 

thanks

[dr_hunt]

Your engine is toast. If you were planning on doing a rebuild, a v8 swap or any other swap, now's the time.

[(goldfish)]

Dang, kinda what I thought, but I was hoping a little. Thanks, I normally could reply faster if I would stop reading on customer computers

[rickyrobie]

it could be the the rod the go's to the oil pump.in upside down or what ever,,did it make this noise before you changed the pump

[rickyrobie]

if that rod is not locked in place it could be the problem,,that is if it didnt make the noise before the pump replacement