Re: CLEANING PAN OF SEDIMENT UPON PURCHASE

Posted by Ross On 2016/9/28 17:55:43

The goo on the bottom does not bother me much, but I have seen more than one engine where the floating screen did not float anymore and the pickup had made a little nest down in the goo. Yet more often I remove the sheet metal cover on the floating screen and discover that a large portion of it is blocked.

I have in inventory a fine running 288 with horrible oil pressure. I had it in my roadster during the mockup phase.
This poor creature had horrible oil pressure and had that low gutteral sound they make when the rods are loose and it is pressed a bit. Removing the valve covers was a shock, and the oil pickup could not rise above the sludge. I cleaned it out and slapped in a set of used rod bearings out of a customer's rebuild. It was then a perfectly good engine for honking around the neighborhood.