Sounds like your oil pump went south and the overheating was a byproduct
of not having any oil pumped to critical engine parts.
Whenever you lose oil pressure, shut down your engine and do not start it
again until you've investigated the problem.
Unfortunately, I think you'll need a complete engine tear down to find
out what's damaged, but I'll let others on the list chime in. If the
engine was installed in a Chevy, there might have been room to pull the
oil pan and check the pump and bottom end. With it installed in a Jag,
you may have to pull the engine.
Dan McHatton
'66 1600
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:04:27 -0800 "Daniel Neuman"
<neuman@RadOnc17.UCSF.Edu> writes:
I watched the oil pressure go from 40-20-10-ish as I was attempting to
make it to an off ramp.
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