gerhart
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- 1987
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I have an 87 Bronco ii we are resurrecting. When we put the engine in and tried to start it, it hydrolocked due what we eventually found was a fault in the ECU. That fault caused the injectors in cylinders 3 and 6 to go wide open and flood the cylinder with fuel. We replaced the ECU and it not starts. We've let it run for a few seconds and the check oil light stays on so we shut it off. We don't think we are getting oil pressure. We hooked a oil pressure gage in place of the oil pressure sensor and no reading of pressure with the engine running 30 seconds. We dismanteled an old distributor and installed it so it engages the oil pump shaft. When we turn it by hand we get resistance after a partial turn. When I hook up a drill to it indefinitly labors as the number of revolutions increases so it seems like the pump is engaged. We are wondering if the gas associated with the hydrolock draining in the pan could have created some blockage of some kind. The oil pump was working fine when the engine was removed and dismanteled. Only the oil pan seal was replaced. The pump, shaft, etc were left intact. Anybody have any idea what this might be?