Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

never built a motor or anything so im a noob to that. Once i remove the pan and see the oil pickup and rods, how will I know if Ive fucked up a rod bearing or not?

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

Too much oil is alot worse than having low oil.

When the oil level is high, the crankshaft travels through the oil on its rotation, and froths it up bad. Once the oil starts to froth, it becomes hard for the pump to pick it up, and the oil thins right out and doesnt do a very good job :1

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

yep

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

I think it actually sounds like a bad oil pump. I don't knwo exactly how the honda oiling system works, but spinning one bearing shouldn't totally kill the oil supply to the circuit that the, oil pressure sensor/turbo feed is

try taking off all the fittings in the back of the block and make sure nothing clogged them also, if some silicone/shrapnel/ reandom ---- got in there that would account for the oil light and nothing comming out of the oil feed line

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

so i should undo my fittings on the back of the block and see if anythign is clogging the line?

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

i doubt thats it, but try it. Then pull the pan and remove the rod caps and replace them one at a time so you dont mess yourself up. check to see how chewed up the bearings are. The only times ive seen a motor spin a bearing it was always preceeded by the oil light coming on first, so be prepared for things to be fubar.

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

removed oil pan and this is what i saw, i found alot of metal shavings , some as big as grits of sand. why would i have metal shavings? I just changed the oil 3 days ago before the oil light came on. There also is enough of the shaving to clogg pickup.

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

Guys he was running a lightened elcrapo ebay crank pulley. I'm almost positive this toasted his pump. Another friend of mine running a ctr pulley toasted 2 oil pump within two weeks on his boosted ls. After he put a stock pulley back on he had no problems. Also just last week another friend of mine with a newely boosted b17 running the ctr pulley had his oil light mysteriously cut on, but he luckily shut the car off right away so hopefully no damage occured.

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

dude, ur engine is gonnnne. those metal shaving, were ur bearings. WERE :)

swap it out and boost a new one.

Re: PLEASE HELP!! Oil light came on tonite, don't know why.
 

yea, damn that sucks. hopefully i can jus save enough up soon so i can get another d15b or maybe just use my spare z6 block with the d15b head