Q: No oil pumpin on one head

asked by on June 17, 2016

We replace the engine make sure that we replaced every gasket and seal like we supposed to put new pushrods and rocker arms now the right hand side head is not pumping oil but the left hand side is pumping just fine the vehicle does have good oil pressure

My car has 112000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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