Pinto Car Club of America

Looking for help with my '74 2.0.  The car won't idle, I've rebuilt the carb and replaced the intake gasket, all of the vacuum lines are good, I've re-sealed all of the screw in plugs with teflon tape, no effect what-so-ever.  I noticed reading through here that the box in the block under the intake is supposed to have a PCV and a hose on it?  Mine's just the box pushed into the block.

With the other issue, maybe it's a good thing I can't keep it running.  I decided to replace the idiot light with a mechanical guage.  I put the line in the block where the factory sending unit was (lower rear, driver's side), and had 5 PSI at 12-1500 RPM.  I shut it all down, took the line out, blew it out just in case, reinstalled, same result.  Thinking it was a bad guage I took another one that I had laying around, put a new line kit on it, same result!

Yeah, I'm bummed..... :(

Hello Bob55,
You have probally wiped out your camshaft with only 5 pounds "I'm assuming" OIL presure.
My NEW turbo 2.0 has 55 pounds of oil at 1000 rpm W/stock oil pump.
I did not install a High volume oil pump because I'm running my crank and rod clearance too close.
It is possible that your cam is fine BUT sometimes I have tore down the 2.0 to find the oil-spray bar is broken or loose. I'm not sure that would cause low oil presure or not.
Are you sure your engine is full of oil?
From Pintony

You're correct it is oil pressure....I was pretty frustrated yesterday!  According to the dipstick (in the block, not me ;D) the oil level is at it's proper level.  Sounds like it's time to tear down the top end......