no oil pressure

With the lifters all collapsed and ticking, he's not getting oil....


I think that he's going to have to pull the pan and pump to find what he needs to fix this.


I had my lifters all collapse once 30 years ago, my NEW TRW oil pump had a stuck pressure relief valve. TRW tried to push it off on me, and I haven't bought any TRW parts since.

Their diagnosis was and I quote, "tiny minute particles small enough to fit through the stock pick-up tube screen had lodged and stuck the oil pressure relief valve"...

They rebuilt the pump for me at no cost... (how nice of them). They wouldn't cover my losses on the engine. I sold it to someone for $25 after telling them the story and said, "If anything happens, you're on your own. Take it up with TRW, I warned you." I have never had a problem with Mellings.

If the TRW pump can't handle what the stock pick up tube screen can't filter out, it is junk as far as I'm concerned. "NO TRW FOR ME" - in the soup Nazi voice....