Ticking time bomb

[Wasp]

Went to Wally World n scored a 5 quart jug of 10-30 Pennzoil Plus, you know the stuff that's derived from natural gas? I drained the old stuff, installed a oil cooler spacer to give me a place to put my oil temp sensor and eventually a engine oil cooler. I charged the filter, screwed that on the spacer, dumped the rest of the oil in crank case. Drove it up and down the road with no problems , parked it for the night. Got up this morning crank her over.... to my horror, it was rapping like a black kid in the streets of Detroit. So what the heck happened in just 12 hours?

Any ideas?



J

 

[Andy D]

Either the filter is NG or the spacer defeated the filter's anti-drainback valve.

 

[Wasp]

I've been thinking the same thing, I'll yank the spacer off tomorrow and see if I get any oil pressure back. Oh did I mention I installed an oil pressure gauge and it showed zero oil pressure. I hope I didn't damage something internally... yikes
Without the spacer being plumbed into a cooler, maybe the flow of oil is being restricted or altogether stopped with the two outlets on the spacer capped off. It looked to me that the oil could pass through the spacer even without being plumbed to the cooler for circulation.

Thanks for your feed back, I'll let you know what I find.

J

 

[Bronco638]

Didn't the spacer have a temperature controlled spring in it, to by-pass the cooler, when the oil is cold?

I put a spacer on my old '96 Explorer, to do the exact same thing, add an oil temp gauge. I didn't have any trouble.

Here's a link to my post at Explorer 4x4: LINK

I modified the spacer to allow oil to flow thru it, and ditched the temperature spring.

 

[Wasp]

No this one wasn't that fancy. I removed the spacer and it's seems fine now. I did manage to find a better place for my oil temp sensor. I had a oil pressure gauge laying around so I plumped that in with the oil temp sensor where the OEM oil pressure gauge screw into the block.

I must say though, these are one tough engine to put up with all my bone headed moves......

Thanks for your input guys,

J