Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Troubleshooting A Message Form Terry Haines

Another thing that I don't understand - oil is an incompressible fluid flowing through a solid (ie non swelling so there is no residual pressure from constriction after pumping stops) gallery, so when pressure drops at the pump wouln't the entire lube path stop flowing right then and there? In this case it seems like whatever component sheds oil first is going to seize, which following the logic of RoadRunner would seeem to be the rods.

I'm just a hack, but I know more knowledgable people like procyon and horse aren't total believers in the crank whip theory.

I guess the safest thing to do would be to take Dan Nixons philosophy and assume that all the suspected causes of spun bearings are potential killers

dmd for whip, extra 1/2qt for starvation, and if you have big bucks an accusump or even some clevite77 rod bearings.