Ok, your engines hot and your oil is thinned out

[Texas Diesel]

Ok, your engine is hot and your oil is thinned out, engine oil pressure is at it's lowest beacuse you are idleing at the bottom of the off ramp.



Will the neat little bypass filter you just installed cause your ideling oil pressure to be even lower?



How do you *know*? (no theories please)



unbypassed in texas...

 

[DavidC]

I have not noticed any pressure differences hot or cold or pulling 10k load up some extreme grades and stopping for red lights with the oilguard system. The stock oil pressure guage still reads the same as before the bypass system was installed.



Dave

 

[amsoilman]

The Amsoil by-pass has a very small oriface in the return side of the filter element, which keeps the oil pressure up. On mine, I have not noticed any difference in pressure after a hard pull.



Wayne

amsoilman

 

[Texas Diesel]

thanks for the answers, that's what I wanted to know.

 

[OTRPU]

Well I sure have seen a difference. . . and in the stock OP guage too. Wasn't real heavy, maybe 15k+, pullin a stack of gooseneck trailers I-70W. EGTs hit 1,500+, radiator boiled over a few times. That dumb factory OP guage that always says the same reading after warmed up went from that normal reading down to the middle mark and a needle to the left of center. I figured things were getting too hot. Stopped and replaced what oil I'd lost, after radiator cooled to the point I could remove cap without it exploding I refilled radiator with half & half. Back on the road, but this time not running faster than 60, sometimes slowing to 50 to keep things in range. Only column pod guage I had that wasn't pegged full right was the transmission temp. That puppy held in there no more than 210* since adding the cooler. OK. . . I admit it, ain't got no ballz. Now the fan clutch is fixed, I've opened up the exhaust, and a custom aluminum radiator is on order. What the he!!, 65 is fast enough to be running with a load anyway.



Cheers,

Steve J.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

OTRPU,



Do you still have the OEM Thermostat in the truck?



http://dodgeram.info/tsb/1998/07-08-98.htm

 

[moparguy]

Hemi, have you installed this thermostat on your 94? If so, what changes did you see.



Thanks, Ronnie

 

[OTRPU]

Hemi, Dave's Diesels, Angola, IN, installed a new thermostat less than a month ago. New fan clutch went in yesterday. On drive home from Reliance Truck & Auto this evening I left it idle while helping a gal that had run out of gas. Noticed that the water temp was well right of center. Not very hot here in Lakewood, CO today. Looks like maybe the new radiator I have on order may be needed.



Cheers,

Steve J.