1998 Ford Taurus rocker arm oil flow

YOUKNOWMYNAME67

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1998 FORD TAURUS
6 CYL
FWD
AUTOMATIC
139,000 MILES

I replaced the head gaskets on the car and after I put everything together I started the car and it was running alright I was putting the new gasket inside the rocker arm cover gasket and I notcied oil flow had stopped on the rocker arms and the oil light came on. I shut the car off pulled the push rods to check to see if they were bent or if there was something preventing any oil flow. I cant find anything preventing flow and so now I am looking for ideas on what to look at also I have the rocker arm torq specs at 20-28 ft lbs is that the torq anyone else uses?

Friday, September 17th, 2010 AT 5:43 PM

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JACOBANDNICKOLAS

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Is there any chance something could be clogging the oil pump pick-up screen?

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Friday, September 17th, 2010 AT 10:33 PM

YOUKNOWMYNAME67

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Its a possibility I thought about that and I did an oil change and blew the lines with a compressor still didnt have any change. I also pulled the pan plug and just poured oil straight into the outlet at the corners of the heads and it went straight through and out the plug.

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Saturday, September 18th, 2010 AT 2:45 AM

JACOBANDNICKOLAS

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If there is no oil to the rockers, it has to be related to the pump. I would remove the oil pan and see what is going on.

Let me know what you find.

Joe

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Saturday, September 18th, 2010 AT 6:35 PM