Stock bottom end 360 magnum

black954 said

Also, if you go the budget route, I would reuse the stock oil pump and instead put in a new timing chain on the original gears. Magnums aren't known to have low oil pressure issues at all. All 3 of the Ram trucks i've owned in the past with 200,000+ miles had awesome hot oil pressure.

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There is ONE problem. The poor design of the "trumpet" pickups can pick up enough...even soft carbon...to plug the pickup at highway speed. I've posted about this. If possible, use a late model LA pickup

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I don't know but tuck this away "for later." I'm convinced a large part of oil pressure problems on late Mopars is due to an incredibly stupid pickup design. had problems in my 95 5.2 Ram 1500, now gone

On the left is an 80's pickup I put back in, the one on the right is the problem child. Notice how clean it looks. It was picking up tiny soft flakes of sludge until it covered the pickup (happened twice) and dropped pressure




pickups out of 5.2/ 5.9 Dakota/ Durango