LOW OIL PRESSURE!!!

Dan · May 11, 2015

Last night I was out messing around doing some WOT runs with the truck on my 2000 pulse tune and towards the end of a run my oil pressure gauge apubptly read "0" psi. The low oil pressure warning came on on the dash... I immediately bumped trans in neutral and killed the engine. Towed the truck back to the shop and started into it. Dumped oil, no metal, cut open filter, no metal. Started ripping and tearing.

By midnight I was here and found this:

I drove out to Northstar Ford in Fort McKay which I believe is the only 24/7 Ford store in North America and bought the last front cover oil pump assembly they had on the shelf, 540$ for the cover and front crank seal... Installed and by 7am was back on the road again with plenty of oil pressure.

I defiantly am counting my lucky stars on this one, but this is the second high hp 6.7 that's pulled this little trick that I know about... Is it a fluidampr thing? Is it an rpm thing? Both? I know my truck has always pulled 4700rpm+

So who's going to be the one to make a "billet oil pump"???

Jacob @ No Limit · May 11, 2015

Dang! Good catch! How are you reading oil psi?

Dan · May 11, 2015

I have this little guy... Worth its weight in gold! I literally kissed it after everything went back together and fired up.

bigrpowr · May 11, 2015

lucky !

UpstateDieselGuy · May 11, 2015

Six_Sloww · May 11, 2015

Wow.. Every time I hate my truck yours makes me feel better.

madman1234509 · May 11, 2015

Seriously..... He's had one mishap after another.

Vader's Fury · May 11, 2015

Isn't this the same thing that happened to the MPD truck?

johnp115 · May 11, 2015

Vader's Fury said:
Isn't this the same thing that happened to the MPD truck?

I was just about to say. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing but they did not get so lucky....

weekendwarriorfsw32 · May 11, 2015

Damn good catch!

SEABEE08FX4 · May 11, 2015

Might be worth getting a OEM one cryo treated.

Breaking Habits · May 11, 2015

So glad the aftermarket ones are in production. My truck wont be going together without one.

Mcgrath7 · May 11, 2015

Do you guys think this has been the cause to some of the lower end bearing failures? Ford usually tears it down and finds what failed( spun bearing) , orders the new motor and sends the old one to ford and you never hear why the bearing failed.. Thanks guys

Morgan@Midwest Diesel & Auto · May 11, 2015

Stock balancer ftw!!!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Tyler@Street Diesel Performance · May 11, 2015

I'm with Morgan on this. When u texted me I forgot u had that thing on there. Idk... And Jared how long ?

Dan · May 11, 2015

Jared @ River City Diesel said:
So glad the aftermarket ones are in production. My truck wont be going together without one.

Let me know when they are available!!! That is a must have item!

Morgan@Midwest Diesel & Auto said:
Stock balancer ftw!!!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This might actually be a thing... Now what about those ATI ballancers? I don't know if they are available yet? Would that be a significant improvement over the fluidampr ones?

Tyler@Street Diesel Performance said:
I'm with Morgan on this. When u texted me I forgot u had that thing on there. Idk... And Jared how long ?

This seems to be the general consensus!

And one have a stock ballancer kicking around they don't want?

jcain · May 11, 2015

I've always run ATI dampeners on big builds.

CMCx2012 · May 12, 2015

...Damn. Good catch!

gfulton · May 12, 2015

Mcgrath7 said:
Do you guys think this has been the cause to some of the lower end bearing failures? Ford usually tears it down and finds what failed( spun bearing) , orders the new motor and sends the old one to ford and you never hear why the bearing failed.. Thanks guys

Good possibility.........