Wimpy had a heart attack

First and foremost, check the oil level. Fill if necc.
Electric gauge or manual gauge?
If manual gauge, disconnect oil line and blow air through to make sure no crud in line, or at back of gauge. Reconnect and restart
If electric gauge, install test manual gauge and take reading
the engine should have made some tappet noises if truly low oil pressure
did you hear any strange noises?
plugged up oil filer or oil lines?

 

AAAAAAAHHHH, not Wimpy!!

If you get thru the easy troubleshooting stuff, I'd HIGHLY recommend dropping the pan to inspect the oil pick-up screen. If you had sludge or other obstruction down there for a whle it'd look like this:



Low oil pressure is one of those silent killers....it'll run fine for a finite time period and then suddely shut you down. Good luck!
-Alan

 

Really? Then what's in its place preventing oil geyersing (new word ) out the oil pump?

Brian I hope it's nothing major, lest you revert back to the 4-cyl engines. But if all else makes you scratch your head, drop the pan. You can always put it back. There'll be a baffle to remove also before you can access the pickup screen. I had similar fluxuating oil pressures before it locked up. Good luck buddy.
-Alan

 

Sorry to hear Brian, really, but here in Nevada we're will'in to bet on anything, and so, at your expense,

I've got a buck and a brewsky on 'your about to spin a bearing'. Ok.........this will hurt to re-live.....but maybe it will ease your pain,

One blustery fall day.......runs fine, some oil press. loss noticed here and there, does'nt seem consistant. tappet-type noise kinda slight at first... then you know it's not going to be a 'tap' anymore 'cause she's a knock'in worse and worse and a sickenning un-natural metal shear-tear-grind kinda 'KNOCK' and then it just sounds as though you are surely dropp'in pieces out the back as you go. It's still running for some ungodly reason, but the noise now is beyond normal human tollerances and you shut'er down. then of course, one simple thought, ....................****.

If I'm right, please email me so I can give you my mailing address to send money and beer.

On a more promissing note however, because you didn't just sit there like a complete idiot with it a whirling around to long, there was only minor damage. In this case, a well deserved re-build made it all better again. (boo-boo go away)

I'm a month away from hearing the 'purr' of a healthy F134.

Rob
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'71 CJ5 225 V6 building
'58 CJ5 F134 blowed-up boom
'53 M38A1 F134 corn field warrior
'47 CJ2a L134 damn, just sold
'53 BT3-C got fish'in poles ready
'53 XM105E3 spartacus of my yard

 

Yup! What Rob described is pertinier to what I experienced. 'Cept I kept driving it because I wanted to get 'er home. The crank sheared in half (see "V6 carnage pics" on the intro section). Not sure whether or not I had spun a bearing (I have no idea what that is) but I did have serious sluuudge in the pickup screen.

 

Hippo, what I was describing turned out to be the main bearings of the connecting rods to the crank shaft. a 'spun' bearing is where one of the two halves (bearing) actually spins around the crank so that both halves are together on one side of the crank. Causes all kinds of nasty trouble and these bearings are probably most of what you found in your sludge of carnage.

Had my '71 V6 blow up on me also a few years ago, that time it was a Very high milage failure which caused a broken connecting rod resulting in it punching a hole thru the side of the block. That event was decisive......driving along, and BANG !! everything ceased to go in one sudden moment. caused me to lock it up and nearly go into a ditch. Scared the hell out of me. The F134 thing just pissed me off.

Rob
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'71 CJ5 225 V6 building
'58 CJ5 F134 blowed-up boom
'53 M38A1 F134 corn field warrior
'47 CJ2a L134 damn, just sold
'53 BT3-C got fish'in poles ready
'53 XM105E3 spartacus of my yard

 

Brian, the damage is probably done. when you pull the pan, pull some of the rod and main caps to inspect the bearings and crank. if they are ok, no scoring and gouges, you can maybe run it a little longer, you really won't hurt it any worse if the oil pressure comes up with a new pump. If the pressure doesn't come up with a new oil pump, accept your fate and do the job it needs.

 

just curious
what oil are you burnin' ?

 

Just a thought you might try a quart of Lucas Oil Stabilizer will sometimes help alittle pricey like $7 but I've seen it prolong things. Not a cure but a bandaid. Might keep you going for a while longer

 

Maybe some 20W50.

 

By the way- great word choice!!
I might have said "spewing or belching".