A good friend of mine is having issues with his ram truck's 5.7 hemi . Below is his email to me:

my 03 dodge with the 5.7 hemi has had oil pressure issues for a while it would loose pressure but you could turn it off and when you restarted it the pressure would come back up for a while.i could cure this for a while by changing the oil. last week i had a valve spring break on my #2 cylinder. i replace the spring and bent push rod. when i started and drove it it i lost all oil pressure and can not get it to come back up by restarting it.I'm going to replace the oil pump but would like your opinion on this, if there might be something besides the oil pump causing the problem. I've built lots of rb b and a motors but this is the first time I've worked on the new hemi motor.


Anyone have any idea's to toss his way?


Thank you

Allen