Need to know if I have a problem here, shipmates.
I put a freshly rebuilt 283 into my 58 Chevy Apache (special thanks to all who offered advice but especially HotRod Lincoln & Wrenchbender for leading me along the path to initial startup & self-sustaining internal combustion).
The girl is starting & running pretty well. The short distance between running pretty well and running fine will be traversed when I tweak the timing in.
I was watching my gauges during this initial start up and run in and I seem to have an abundance of oil pressure. I start her up. The oil pressure comes up smoothly & goes right up to about 60 PSI.
This seems a bit high to me - at least compared to the pressure before I rebuilt the engine. Before the rebuild, I remember having less oil pressure. The needle was somewhere between half & 3/4 on the gage.
Now for those of you who've seen these 1958 gauges, you know they're not calibrated into micro units - a zero on one end, a dot in the middle & the 60 on the right. The engineers in 58 didn't believe much in fine tuning, I guess.
Anyhow, when the engine is running, my needle is well up in the high range (near or at 60 on the gauge).
Is this normal for a newly rebuilt engine or is something amiss? What can I check to verify everything is OK?
THX.
