Thread: high pressure oil pump

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ok so about 3 years ago i was new to engine building and didn't know anything at all compared to what i know now... i was building a 302 for one of my many cars and was trying to go mildly high performance... well at the parts counter they didn't have any stock oil pumps when i was picking one up... so i made the stupidest mistake and bought a high pressure oil pump because it was on the shelf and sounded like it'd be better for my engine.... little did i know i'd have countless problems of oil coming out of my oil filler cap, shooting my dipstick out of the tube and blowing thru gaskets.... so I'm wondering now if theres any way to decrease the oil pressure without pulling my engine... or should i just pull the pump and buy a new one?

pcv is brand new, oil galleys are clear, rings have about 5000 miles on them..... and i drove it lightly for a good 600 miles before i started puttin the foot in it.... so they should have seated properly.... my oil pump is putting out 80psi at idle though... which is a little high in my opinion

thesals, if your oil pump pressure is blowing your dip stick out of the tube that would be a first, the experance ive had with to much oil pressure is blowing the oil filter off. you need to do that denny said, and find out where all that blow by is coming from. its either blow by from the rings or a pcv. problem.

Do you have breathers in cover oposite the pcv valve?

To get lower pump pressure...just get a stock spring for a regular pump and put it in the pump you have.....or change the pump...

yeah i got a breather on the other side, with my extra tall ford racing valve covers.... also i also have oil coming out from under my distributor... the O ring is brand new on that too.... makes me wonder if i should just drop the pan and swap pumps.... and if i do that... i might as well yank the noisy ass gear drive out while i'm at it and stick a double roller in there.... i like the gear drive... but that noise just gets annoying after a while and couldn't be good for harmonics on the engine

alright, those pictures will have to wait for later in the day when it stops raining.... but for the distributor, i pulled it and the O ring looked like it was just barely even... so i tried moving it up a little more... as for the oil pump, i don't remember it coming with any instructions... i didn't even come with a pickup tube..... all i know about it is that its a clevite high pressure oil pump for a SBF

thats exactly what it looks like... so all i gotta do is change that spring with another one i can get over the parts counter... and that should drop my oil pressure to a more desireable and less messy level?