Please Help. Oil is not circulating.

[FairladyFan]

So as my last thread said my car wasn't starting because it was not getting fuel.
It turned out to be bad connections at the injectors. So I had to disconnect each one, clean them up and put them back in.
The car fired up great after that but now another problem presented itself. the engine is not getting any oil. when it started up I watched my oil pressure gauge and it sat at zero for over 5 seconds so I shut the engine off and pulled the oil filter but it was still empty.

Would sitting for a year cause the oil pump to fail?
Where else would I look to solve this issue?

Please help me, I really wanna get the car on the road for a couple days before the snow flies.

Thanks

[robomatic12]

The oil pump is nothing more than a couple of gears with teeth that mesh into each other, they cannot fail from sitting over time.

More likely the oil pump has lost its prime. There was an interesting thread I read over on twinturbo.net that involved adapting pipe fittings to screw into the oil filter. Then a short section of clear tubing was attached before attaching that tube to a vacuum cleaner. With someone turning the engine over, with the fuel pump and CAS unplugged. Turn vacuum on and watch for oil in the clear tube.

That will help draw oil up from the oil pan into the oil pump.


**With all that being said! The stock oil pressure sender unit is notorious for getting clogged up (has a very tiny hole on the end) and giving a zero oil pressure reading at idle. You should connect a mechanical oil pressure gauge temporarily to make sure you don't actually have oil pressure.

[FairladyFan]

Thanks for the info.
Yeah it must have just lost it's prime. I restarted it and the oil pressure picked up after about 30sec.

[marty1mc]

You ran your engine for 30 sec without any oil pressure?