No oil pressure

[VIKING_MECHANIC]

SOLVED:
i got home from work today and started the process of taking off the pan for the THIRD time. When i took off the pan off, what I saw I was NOT expecting. A blue shop towel had been sucked up into the pick up screen and essentially blocked all from the engine. Luckily it pulled enough oil through to allow me to get home.

I completely forgot that I left it in the pan. I feel like a dumba s s.

I spent about 45 minutes cleaning out the pickup screen and put it back together. After I started it and held it at 3K and after about 45 seconds the lifter clatter went away and it was holding about 50psi - although I personally think the psi is high than what the gauge shows because of the way I ran the tube into the cab.

You guys have no Idea of how relived I am.

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[smdk2500]

Ive heard of people doing that when they remove intakes. At least you found it and hopefully didn't do any long term damage to the engine. I bet you wont do that again.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

I had a similar situation several years ago, working on the '06. Had a paper towel stuffed into the intake horn on the 6.0, and forgot to get it out before buttoning everything up. Dad goes to drive the truck out of the carport, down the alley, gets out on the street and it's bucking and running weird. Once the paper got through the combustion process, it ran better, but was kinda scary for a bit.
After that, I got some white shop rags and big rubber bands; used those stretched across the intake horn and the air cleaner hose.

 

[Erik the Awful]

Ive heard of people doing that when they remove intakes.

I once left a pair of rags in the intake of my Cadillac when I bolted the carburetor back down and fired it up. I was wondering why it was running like garbage, and then it spat a smoldering bit of rag out the exhaust. I pulled the intake back off and tore what I could out of the intake ports. The rest took a while to run through the engine.

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

A buddy of mine, years ago, rebuilt his 390 in a 68 T-Bird, fired it up and had a loud knocking noise. He shut it off, tore the intake and heads off, found a crushed beer can in one of the cylinders.

 

[Schurkey]

Usually, when an engine has a drinking problem, it's consuming too much oil, or perhaps too much gasoline.

This is the first time I've heard of one that was a hop-head.