Hey guys. Finally finished a six month process of putting in a new Jasper motor and rebuilding my tranny with a Monster SS package (I'm in school and working - not a lot of free time). Anyway, read through an old thread and figured out I had the distributor 180* off (thank you Kyle) got that fixed today and it finally fired right up! But it's running high oil pressure, gauge almost all the way up. I only ran it for about ten seconds and then shut it off because of that. Is that normal for a new car firing up (maybe it's pressurizing the lines?) or is something wrong?

Thanks.
1998 Blazer, Jasper engine, 4.3L

 

fresh motors usually have higher oil psi till they break in

 

Thanks. So I shouldn't worry about it and drive it?

 

Little help? Sorry about being annoying, but I want to drive this thing!

 

As quik said, it is normal for a new motor to show higher than normal oil pressures. If it sounds normal, I don't think I would worry too much about it.

One question I have is did you verify that the gauge is reading properly by hooking up a mechanical gauge to it? The factory gauge isn't a linear transition and really isn't all that accurate to boot.

 

No, I didn't. I'll look into that. Thanks!