So had my motor apart looking for what i thought was a bad rod knock, and the only thing I found was the rear cam bearing was pushed back some. The cam looks fine. Could this have been causing the knocking that could sound like a rod knock? (everyone thought for sure it was a spun rod, it was a loud knock) All of the main and rod bearings looked completely fine. As did the pistons, bores, and wrist pins. We're stumped on this one.

 

could possibly be the oil pump mine did the same thing and I went through the same procedures and that's all mine was

 

what happened with the oil pump? did u have oil pressure? im going to get a new oil pump to be on the safe side now

 

the gear inside the pump was broke only had about 20lbs of pressure but when you have as much as i do in your car I'd check everything to be safe

 

well i aint pulling my motor twice so any recommendations on a new pump? the that was in it i think was a melling hi volume. funny thing this motor only had 500 miles on it since its rebuilding.

 

I have a miiling high volume oil pump it works great I've always got great oil pressure as far as everything else sounds like you've already checked everything as far as bearings I'd deffinatly would put new cam bearings in since they have some damage

 

i bought a new shortblock i aint screwin around. You think I should get the high volume one? how much better is that than the standard? it just pumps more oil, better pressure or what?

 

alot better oil pressure I have about 45lbs at idle and about 65lbs going down the highway it's just my oppinion if you wanna go stock that should be fine to I'm kinda hard on mine so the more oil pressure the better she's never starving for oil