402 oil pressure problem

[Ryan Toliver]

I have a 72 402 in myy camaro and I recently noticed that my rockers were noisy. I had no oil pressure. I took off the oil pressure line fitting and cranked the engine over a few times but had no oil come out of the block. Should I assume that my oil pump is fried? I need help. I am supposed to leave to Iraq sometime next Week.

[Ryan Toliver]

at first it was a little low, but a qrt topped it off. This was before I took off the oil pressure line fitting.

[Ryan Toliver]

I am not sure if it is broke or not. I am trying to test what I can before I have to pull the motor. I only have one week before I go over seas. Also before this problem I was having
oil coming up out of the top of the dipstick at high rpms.

[Thunderbucket]

Your motor is in serious need of help,,,sounds like you have got combustion getting past your rings,,and it's pressurising your crank case.
And yes it's a fair bet that your oil pump is not working.

[Ryan Toliver]

I have fixed the oil pressure problem that I had in my 402. The oil pump bolt worked loose and therefore all the oil that was getting pumped was going right back into the oil pan. While I had the oil pan off, I replaced the pump with a good quality high volume/high pressure pump and now the engine runs better than ever.