Re: Oldsmobile oil pump conversion kit update

Posted by PackardV8 On 2010/8/15 6:56:33

One of problems with my air trap theory is that why would the air ever leave the trap area????? The air would have to travel DOWN. The only possibility that i can come up with is that the air builds up and is at the same pressure as the oil pressure. When oil pressure drops a little, or the air heats up then the air column suddenly expands DOWN to meet the right and/or left longitudinal main oil gallery and pushes on thru far enuf to get to the rest of the engine.


OR the quantity of air builds up enuf to displace enuf oil far enuf below the main longitudinal oil gallery intersections and thus gets pushed on thru. This would cause a momentary loss or oil delivery to the longitudinal galleries.