Help with low oil pressure

[moparmike68]

It is weird to have to tell a seasoned shop "how to build", but they often have younger inexperienced guys doing much of the work now. In my case, I trusted the local builder to assemble my stroker. They did just that, assemble. My bearing clearance must be quite large due to the low oil pressure. The old saying of "trust and verify" applies here. I trusted but did not verify. They built engines for us in the past that were excellent.

Well this was an older guy that had an older shop with machines visible so I thought I was good. I thought”oh this guy is older and wiser and is probably good at rebuilding g engines over decades.Not too sure now🫩. You just never know

 

[Ricks72Chlgr440]

Well this was an older guy that had an older shop with machines visible so I thought I was good. I thought”oh this guy is older and wiser and is probably good at rebuilding g engines over decades.Not too sure now🫩. You just never know

Exactly. The shop I use is always really busy so thinking they just quickly built it and out the door. It takes a little longer to use plastigauge for bearing clearance but I doubt it was done. I know Mopar Joe said one time he sent back bearings in a stroker kit because they did not provide the correct clearance. It can happen, but machine shops should check for that.

 

[moparmike68]

Exactly. The shop I use is always really busy so thinking they just quickly built it and out the door. It takes a little longer to use plastigauge for bearing clearance but I doubt it was done. I know Mopar Joe said one time he sent back bearings in a stroker kit because they did not provide the correct clearance. It can happen, but machine shops should check for that.

No kidding