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If you have a front-sump oil pan...
By Dave Shoe - 10/10/2003 5:04:15 PM; IP 12.2.11.131
...you may be damaging your engine. If you have a larger type pan, problems can be averted.

It's critically important that the oil pan not be sucked dry by the oil pump. With all that extra pressure, you must use oiling restrictors in the heads to prevent dumping all the oil to the top of the engine. You must also run more than five quarts of oil in your engine. Seven is a good starting point, and some pickups do get an oversized pan. Most pickups, however, use a Galaxie style pan.

Despite what the books say, an oil pump is not the first item to update if you wish to increase the oiling capacity of your FE. The pan generally comes in first, and other goodies also come in before a new pump.

I'd post more, but it's pretty tough to edit my sloppy writing into clean posts nowadays, so I guess I'm learning how to be less wordy.

Shoe.
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Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=18620&Reply=18620><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor18620" onclick="return false;">100 psi oil pressure</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>galaxiefreak64, <i>10/08/2003</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=18620', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor18620') }); </script>  100 psi oil pressure -- galaxiefreak64, 10/08/2003
 RE: 100 psi oil pressure -- giacamo, 10/08/2003
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=18644&Reply=18620><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor18644" onclick="return false;">RE: 100 psi oil pressure</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Charlie, <i>10/10/2003</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=18644', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor18644') }); </script>  RE: 100 psi oil pressure -- Charlie, 10/10/2003
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=18649&Reply=18620><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor18649" onclick="return false;">RE: 100 psi oil pressure</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>galaxiefreak64, <i>10/10/2003</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=18649', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor18649') }); </script>  RE: 100 psi oil pressure -- galaxiefreak64, 10/10/2003
Collapse <b>If you have a front-sump oil pan...</b>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Dave Shoe, <i>10/10/2003</i></font>If you have a front-sump oil pan... -- Dave Shoe, 10/10/2003
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=18661&Reply=18620><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor18661" onclick="return false;">Hey, I can edit again!</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>Dave Shoe, <i>10/11/2003</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=18661', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor18661') }); </script>  Hey, I can edit again! -- Dave Shoe, 10/11/2003
 Oops. I don't mean "edit posts"... -- Dave Shoe, 10/11/2003
 No problem, Dave - been a little too busy for maintenance. [n/m] -- Mr F, 10/12/2003
Collapse <a href=../ForumFE/reply.aspx?ID=18657&Reply=18620><img src=../images/reply.png width=30 height=10></a>&nbsp;<a href="#" id="anchor18657" onclick="return false;">RE: 100 psi oil pressure</a>&nbsp;-- <font color=#0000ff>giacamo, <i>10/10/2003</i></font><script type="text/javascript"> new HelpBalloon({ dataURL: 'replyb.aspx?ID=18657', contentMargin: 60, icon: $('anchor18657') }); </script>  RE: 100 psi oil pressure -- giacamo, 10/10/2003
 RE: 100 psi oil pressure -- galaxiefreak64, 10/11/2003
 RE: 100 psi oil pressure -- Charlie, 10/11/2003
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