Priming oil system

[Hotlappin']

Is there a way to prime the oil system of a 5.9 with out turning the rotating assembly? Sort of like the small block Chevys do with a drill?

 

[kawi600]

someone posted in the thread about rocker arm damage about making a setup. Wasnt cheap, but it sounded real nice.
Looked and he used this pump:
Exa-Pump®

 

[White Knight]

If you have an extra oil pump you can remove the idler gear and use a drill to prime the system. But then you have to swap the pump back on and put the front cover back on before you can start it.


Or you could plumb in an oil accumulator and charge it with shop air.

 

[Chevycummins]

Depending on the block you could remove the oil pressure sensor or one of the plugs and run a line from a tank of oil that you can pressurize. We have a small system here at work that we have used before.

 

[Got Smoke?]

If you have an extra oil pump you can remove the idler gear and use a drill to prime the system. But then you have to swap the pump back on and put the front cover back on before you can start it.


Or you could plumb in an oil accumulator and charge it with shop air.

This is what I did. Took my old OE oil pump, pressed the shaft out for the idler gear and pushed the shaft back in just far enough to plug the whole. Then welded a bolt to the pump gear and just used an impact to spin 'er up. Worked like a charm.

 

[little6cylinder]

Here is mine. You cankill 2 birds with one stone and do a remote mount filter at the same time. Running one of these also increases your oil capacity to almost 4 gallons too.

Anyone tried one of these? - Competition Diesel.Com - Bringing The BEST Together

 

[kawi600]

Now thats interesting. Looks like a variation on what racor does with their hand-pump filter heads.

 

[little6cylinder]

It works awesome. You can fill the oil, prime it, pop the oil feed off the chargers and they are full of oil. Or after an oil change you fill it, prime it, and recheck the oil without having to start it. Plus the filters are huge.

 

[smittybert]

I just built a 12v and what I did was clean a grease gun (air gun) and fill with oil then I took the plug out of the oil filter assembly 1/8"ntp put a great fitting in and then pumped the engine with oil. I checked the prime by taking the valve covers off and checking the rockers for oil.