@J Wikof,

What'* the name of that spring? I might as well replace it if I'm going in.

pressure relief valve spring as far as i know,,run into your local stealership..

replacing it would be a smart thing to do

inspect every thing good too when your in there for burs cracks etc.

If the problem is surfacing over 2 years later, i hardly think the reassembly went wrong.

Easy enough to get to, though.

I agree.....but at least he can cross that off his list of wonders

eagerly watching this mines doing the same thing but i have a really noisy top end in the morning.

Remove the pushrods and soak them in solvent, and them blow them out. They've plugged with gunk, most probably. Through the hollow pushrods is how oil gets to the top end.

Alrighty, I dug in to check my spring. I had installed it correctly last time. But I put in a new spring, because the old one felt noticably weaker than the new one. 20 minute drive home and through town, pressure was up by 5 pounds in general. We'll see if that lasts. When I got home, I let it idle for a minute, it never dropped below 20 psi.

How hard was it to get to the cover on the oil pump for disassembly?

I'd have to remove the front cover to get to the oil pump, but I just removed the oil filter adapter by reaching through the wheel well. I removed in this order:

Passenger front wheel, fender liners, oil filter, oil cooler lines, oil filter adapter, spring and valve.

I had a couple ratchet/tripot (is that what it'* called?) clearance issues, but nothing I couldn't work around. And for future reference, oil cooler line collars are 13/16". I put new o-rings on those too. I've always had a little seepage from those.