Re: Low Oil Pressure 356

Posted by Dave Kenney On 2014/6/22 22:28:20

The turn signals on my 1947 Super Clipper would occasionally fail to cancel.I found that the steering column would slip down a bit , maybe a 1/4" or so and that I had to unscrew the steering column from the dash bracket and pull the column closer to the steering wheel. The turn signals would then work properly. You may want to look at the gap between the wheel and column and adjust the column upwards. This may be your problem.
Re the old pressure I had a similar problem and I replacing the oil pump cover with a thinner gasket and shimmied the relief spring and got slightly better oil pressure as well. It never got better than 40 PSI on highway running and would sink to about 15psi hot and at idle. I installed a good quality guage directly to the engine by teeing into the oil outlet line to the filter. My dash gauge tended to be optimistic especially at idle. The engine ran fine however otherwise.