So a couple of weeks back I noticed a small coolant leak and found that it was coming from the timing cover.
After tearing down the front of the motor I noticed that the balancer was coming apart, no big deal bought a new one.
Of course I damaged the oil pan gasket removing the timing cover.
I dropped the exhaust, jacked the motor up and wrestled the pan off which is not an easy job.
My truck has about 140k on the clock and I couldn't see putting the old oil pump back on since you have to drop it to get the pan off.
So I bought a sealed power high volume pump.
Got it all back together and guess what? .....No oil pressure at idle but about 40lbs at 2k rpm.
Bad pump?