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Originally Posted by Petah78
Sorry to be a noob but i am trying to understand. Are you suggesting that the dimensions of the pickup tube is limited oil flow of 2gal/min? Meaning that is the max that the engine is getting regardless how hard the oil is pumping? But if it's partially blocked, wouldn't that metric, 2gal/min be even lower?
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When the pump is at max PSI, it's only pushing 2 GPM through the engine, so that is all the pick up tube needs to pull from the oil pan. The tube with a partially blocked screen could most likely flow a lot more than that if it needed to, but the engine doesn't need more than that