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Help!!!! Detroit oil pressure problems

Gogs123 ยท 2015-11-22 06:12

Hi I hopefully somebody can help me as I'm pulling my hair out now. I have a Detroit diesel v12 71series (2stroke) that I am having oil pressure issues with. I know the pressures on there's engines are not mega high usually. The engine has been rebuilt and 'tested' by a local company a while back and just sat since and going by there sheet the pressures are all fine. All I done to the engine before it was fitted was fitting all the external parts needed. The book says 50-70 psi is normal and 28 minimum at 1800 rpm. Once it is started I only see 1 bar at 1800 and maybe 0.3 bar if I'm lucky at idle so it was shut down straight away. I have tried the obvious like a new gauge-no different. I have replaced the pressure regulator and relief valve in the sump- no different. I dropped the sump again and changed out the pump. Still exactly the same. The gauge shoots up to 5 bar on start up then drops and drops back to one bar. I'm completely puzzled. Any help would be much appreciated thanks

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  1. #1Steve Frazier2015-11-22 11:35

    Please don't post a duplicate thread in more than one forum. It will make replies confusing to others and information in one thread may not make it to the other. There have been no replies here so this thread is closed. Thanks!