<VV> Not So Oily. At all. -help!

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

Clogged oil intake pipe in the oil pan?  Clogged screen on the intake?
Chuckster

At 05:03 PM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
>Hey guys,
>
>I'm going to explain the situation, and in it you will
>find the problem.  See if you can figure this out,
>cause we can't.
>
>Today, some guys from the Duluth club came to my house
>to help me out with my car(thanks guys!)
>
>Ron took the valve cover on the right hand side off,
>and went to adjust the valves, when suddenly he
>realized, there was NO oil coming out.  NONE.
>
>Well how weird.  So we got the other valve cover off-a
>few dribbles, at best, but still, not anything to
>write home about.
>
>We started the car with the valve covers off, no oil
>is getting to the heads at all.
>
>So this is what we figured out...
>
>After some research, we found out the shaft length for
>the 102 distributor I have is the right length-they're
>all the same. so that wasn't the problem.
>
>we took the dist out, and found we could prime it.  we
>took out the oil pressure switch, and primed it-oil
>came out...so we knew the pump was doing its job.
>
>we even took the gears out of the housing just to make
>sure the little ears hadn't broken off-they hadn't.
>
>so we put the distributor back in and started the car
>thinking we had pressure again....we didn't.  we took
>the oil sender out again and cranked the engine-once
>again, oil shot out.
>
>BUT, after starting the car again, there is still no
>oil getting up into the lifters. none.
>
>What could the problem POSSIBLY be?
>
>thanks,
>Ryan V.
>
>1965 Corsa/110/4
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