06-09-2008, 10:28 AM
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Certified Car Nut
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Belleville, MI
Drives: Like a Grandpa
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Re: A "warped" oil pump???
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Originally Posted by Boostaddict
Use a thin coat of TRS on both sides of the gasket... if it really is the pump this will fix it. I'd suspect the oil galley plug on the front of the block first though...
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I know this was an older post, but I finally got the problem resoved and thought it was worth an update. Boosaddict was right. It turned out to be a leaking oil galley plug on the front of the block. The leak was impossible to see with the engine running, and the area around that plug seemed dry. But I discovered it because the engine I rebuilt right after this one had a bad leak from under the rear main seal, which turned out to be a leaking oil galley plug on the rear of the block, and the front one started leaking about 60 miles later. So it made sense that that would be the problem on the first one, and it was. The plugs were not really loose, but they weren't real tight either. So I put some sealer on all of them, tightened them good, and problem solved (after a combined total of 59 hours of work to find it and fix it)!!!
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Red '92 VR4 213,000 mile daily driver that run's 11's! Once I convinced the wife I needed 600hp to drive to work every day, 1/4 mile at a time, the rest was easy 
Currently has the broken rod mod.
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