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Greetings,
I need help determining if my oil pump is doing its job. I’m not convinced it is. I just rebuilt a 2012 600 that seemed to have been starved for oil. My oil level doesn’t seem to be going down nearly enough so I need to determine if my pump is bad before I blow the rebuild.
Also, I’ve posted other threads, but the motor shutdown when my daughter was on it. My buddies mixed oil in the fuel and added oil to the cylinders in order to get it home.
Once home we used a hanger to open the pump wide open. There were many air bubbles but I could see them moving. They all seemed to be gone so is it possible the pumped needed to be purged? I find this hard to believe as I filled every tube with a syringe and bled it during the rebuild but somehow air bubbles didn’t make it to the distribution lines. Any ideas how this would happen?
FYI , I did turn the screw up during the rebuild so I don’t need that info.
What I want to do at this point is bench test the pump (which I pulled off the motor today). I bought a used pump and my thought is I test both and see if there is a significant difference. I am struggling with how to do this but I will try to figure something out. My thought is to use a drill for the same amount of time and see which pump produces more oil. I also want to watch each port to see if I notice any problems or a lack of oil from any of them. Does anyone have any other ideas? I would really like to confirm that the pump I am putting in is good. I wish I would have done this initially.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Why is this motor not using oil like it should be?
I look forward to your help and ideas.
I need help determining if my oil pump is doing its job. I’m not convinced it is. I just rebuilt a 2012 600 that seemed to have been starved for oil. My oil level doesn’t seem to be going down nearly enough so I need to determine if my pump is bad before I blow the rebuild.
Also, I’ve posted other threads, but the motor shutdown when my daughter was on it. My buddies mixed oil in the fuel and added oil to the cylinders in order to get it home.
Once home we used a hanger to open the pump wide open. There were many air bubbles but I could see them moving. They all seemed to be gone so is it possible the pumped needed to be purged? I find this hard to believe as I filled every tube with a syringe and bled it during the rebuild but somehow air bubbles didn’t make it to the distribution lines. Any ideas how this would happen?
FYI , I did turn the screw up during the rebuild so I don’t need that info.
What I want to do at this point is bench test the pump (which I pulled off the motor today). I bought a used pump and my thought is I test both and see if there is a significant difference. I am struggling with how to do this but I will try to figure something out. My thought is to use a drill for the same amount of time and see which pump produces more oil. I also want to watch each port to see if I notice any problems or a lack of oil from any of them. Does anyone have any other ideas? I would really like to confirm that the pump I am putting in is good. I wish I would have done this initially.
Does anyone have any other ideas? Why is this motor not using oil like it should be?
I look forward to your help and ideas.