Why does your LS have low oil pressure? Here is the most common issue!! Tech Tip Saturday...

Dusty explains how the oil pickup O-ring is so important to you oil pressure and why having the wrong one(or it being installed incorrectly) can really affect oil pressure and longevity of your engine!

[SLEEK]

Genius about the check for oil o ring by jacking rear of truck up never thought of that

[codyzellner]

Adding the specs in there was top notch. Thank you.

[HandSolo]

Great info. Doing a build now and installing a new pump. Definitely will be going in to the install more confidently with this info. Thanks.

[RussellBooth]

For some reason the O ring that I bought from Holden in Australia for my 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine was Blue & the original one was green.

Apparently the thicker red O ring is used in the truck engines.

Whatever O ring it is they get cut easily upon installation & even at the factory !

[kaosanova]

YouTube GOLD right here thanks for sharing!

[rickybailey]

Stright to the point !! Thanks for the info!!

[thomasblottman]

Thanks great information, quick and to the point, appreciate you not putting in filler to make a long boring video.

[SlickMcVega]

Also your lifters will sound like they fail if you pinch the oring. Shop did that to me this week

[gatesj]

I just did mine. It had the groove and I used the melting green ring. I lubricated it with oil first but it pushed in hard… once pushed in it seemed like there was a reasonable amount of movement though. Same exact behavior after replacement, 30psi hot idle, it always had at least 40 before about 20k miles ago. Coming up on 300k and I was hoping this would fix it. So these aren’t supposed to push them fairly hard?

[Johnny-jrlq]

Okay I have a question planning on doing the AFM/DOD delete. With cam lifers and new gaskets on my LC9. And I was bitten by the while I’m in there big. So I’m gonna do new oil pump etc. etc. is it possible to get a oil pump with to much volume for a lc9. I just want to put a good oil pump in my truck after doing the AFM/DOD delete.

[motorizedmiscreant]

I have a 2017 w low oil pressure and I was going to replace the pickup o-ring but the parts store said they don’t know w I’m talking about

[mike-wzbb]

Did you have to drop oil pan a little and raise the engine for pickup tube bolt?

[bobbuilder-wotv]

What’s that tool called that measure the circumference..? I find it fascinating I want one

[orRoll]

Good honest information. Great video guys

[NORCALPYRO_]

What about the gen 4 ls motors 2007-2014 5.3/6.2 they take the orange ones right? All the mellings that come up is orange?

[Dave_Bee]

My cold startup pressure is ok but hot went to 10pm I

Can This still be a oring ? Does the 3 quart extra trick always work ?

[jnasty]

Having that issue now lol smh, getting it fixed today

[FlippedNormal]

Thanks for the tips. Could it still be o ring if psi drops as it warms up? Also, how long can i run it with 3 extra quarts as i need to get the temps up.

[wyteboii]

How did you get the oil pump out without dropping the pan?

[Bacongrease]

What’s the proper pressure at WOT 5-6k rpm?