please remember i am getting 65 psig before the cooler consistently. this would validate the pan is not getting sucked dry, the pick up tube is good, the
oil pump is working. I may be able to reuse one of the
oil pump remote cooler lines to temporary plum back to filter adapter. great idea.
does anyone know of a super short
oil filter with the same dimension of the motorcraft fl-1a? if so I could unscrew the filter adapter (what the lines plug into) and just screw a filter on the block for testing. That would defenitley eliminate the whole oil cooler remote lines etc.