suddenly no oil pressure
2nd Gear Member
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 259
From: Maryland
Get something you can trust on the car before the engine is toasted. I asked about the gauge 3 pages ago. $50-60 bucks for a gauge that you know is working, or a few K for a new 347. Whatever works for you.
6th Gear Member
Joined: Jan 2008
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From: colorado
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3rd Gear Member
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 599
From: Bel Air, MD
well this thread has gotten interesting..... anyways, the car is holding normal pressure again somehow? 30ish at idle. i looked at the oil pressure sensor today and its attached like 2 inches away from the block to some tube, and the wire that runs from the sensor to my guage is burnt a little from touching a header i think? im gonna replace the wire and see if it helps.
1st Gear Member
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 90
From: Utah
hey! that was gonna be my joke! lol 
nah, i was center fielder and pitcher so i can throw well......but the electrical gauges still blow either way 
remember when dimebag(i think thats who this happened too) had his dizzy shaft twist and break and it was too late by the time the engine seized because of the damn electrical gauge.
nah, i was center fielder and pitcher so i can throw well......but the electrical gauges still blow either way remember when dimebag(i think thats who this happened too) had his dizzy shaft twist and break and it was too late by the time the engine seized because of the damn electrical gauge.
Bought my 88' Fox about 2 weeks ago. Drove it for 3 days and started hearing a knock/tick.
Luckily I had a $1400 check coming in, so we tore the engine apart and couldn't find the problem. After tearing everything apart and taking the heads to the shop to be reworked(Decided to go with a full rebuild), we noticed the Oil Pump drive shaft snapped off in the bottom of the distributor. Couldn't find the rest of it, just the tip that was stuck in there. Eventually found the rest of it, damn thing looked like a drill bit. The guy I bought it from said it was rebuilt 30,000 miles ago, but we don't see that. He may have rebuilt it, and not changed the oil at all for 30,000. Oil pump was completely seized, shaft was twisted/snapped off. No wonder I felt a loss of power. Wasn't getting any oil to the top end.
Best of luck to you.
2nd Gear Member
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 259
From: Maryland
I certainly was on to something. Glad you are getting sorted out.
M.A.D. Motorsports
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 8,014
From: Indiana
That is just to move it out from the block for the bell style sending unit. I forget what year fox started it,91 I think, had a different sending unit that went straight into the block. But I wouldn't worry about your motor being damaged because you didn't run it very long.
