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RE: Re: RE: Change Filters - Doubles Oil Pressure? I fired up the M543A2 today after running about 30 minutes the oil pressure dropped down to about 50 at 170 degrees and would run up to 70lbs around 2000 rpm. I am taking it over to an insurance office for an inspection and photos Friday...

RE: Re: RE: Change Filters - Doubles Oil Pressure? Jed has it always run that pressure? What do you run at 2000rpm? Bjorn I am running Rotella T 15W-40 and the engine was at about 120 degrees when it was showing 65lbs. at idle. Now that some of my fears of damaging the engine have been...

My engine is the LDS 4651A, when I got it back at the first of the year, it had been completely drained of all fluids, so the oil is new and now all the filters are new but the change in oil pressure worries me. 65lbs seems really high for the engine to have at idle! Nothing else has changed...

I changed oil and fuel filters on the 5 ton, fuel filters were in terrible shape, especially the secondary ones(hard to reach to change). Oil filters looked pretty good, I let the truck sit for about two weeks to drain the filters. Only had to add a quart or so of oil. Issue is prior to filter...