Lost oil pressure

[cjshaker]

[country63sedan]

I'm gone for a while and this place turned into a bunch of shop supply addicts? Just kidding    I can't speak for the taste of loctite, but there is something about the smell when you break loctited bolts loose. I will say this - truck antifreeze, brake cleaner, diesel, used motor oil and used 80-90 are NOT pleasing to my taste buds or eyeballs. We used to have some stuff called clean and prime, it was the best customer repellent ever. Later, Travis.

[MeanGene]

Motorcycle folks just love to use red on the brake disc and pulley/sprocket bolts, going into aluminum hubs- if you don't use a little heat, it's pretty common for the threads to come out of the hub instead of the loctite breaking loose...

[oldgal]

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Have any regular bolts laying around?  I use "non-fancy" bolts, with lock washers and blue Loctite.
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They're my favorite brand of bolts too!

[ToddK]

Just to finish off this thread, today we got the engine all bolted back together, including the oil pick up with red Loctite on the bolts. Engine fired back up with good oil pressure and no strange sounds. Hopefully I got away with this one and all is good again. Now back to bedding in the new brakes.

[63gal427]

You should of used blue loctite.   

[BruceS]

Todd, glad to hear you got it back together with no damage.  A few months back, I started up the 352 in my 63 Gal and the oil light wouldn't go out.  I didn't hear any abnormal engine noise, so let it idle a minute or two.  Still no bad noises, so I revved her a little and saw the oil light flicker.  I figured it must be the sender, and I didnt have a separate gage to check it.  So I shut it off and ordered a new sender from RockAuto.  Got the sender, installed it and presto!  Oil light goes out.  I still can't believe how easy that one was...

Bruce

[ToddK]

If all car problems were only that easily fixed, Bruce.