McCargar Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Regardless of what the book says what oil pressure does a ‘26-’27 standard 6 really produce at idle on a hot engine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Barrett Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 If you have seven to ten it will be okay. Less than that and you should drop the pan and look at things. Pay particular attention to the soldered joints of the oil plumbing and cleanliness of the pan and oil pump screen. I made a device to pressurize the oiling system with the pan off. It’s messy but makes it easy to see where your pressure is leaking off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert_25-25 Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 What RPM are you running at idle. You can really turn the engine speed down on these with the low compression engines. Mine will just lope. I need to put a tachometer on it, but it could be idling as low as 300 rpm and it registers almost nothing. At speed I am at almost 30 PSIG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCargar Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 Thanks for the info. Idle is about 600 at 10-12 lbs so I guess I'm all right. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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