HELP PLEASE no oil pressure

[-ice-man-]

Hi guys not afraid to ask for help I am seriously stumped

Car has sat for 4 years and had drain holes from a removed supercharger ATI. I decided to swap pans for piece of mind and man is that a tough in car job. I also changed to a melling oil pump and a new hardened oil pump shaft. I have tried with a reverse drill to prime the damn thing (30 minutes) and I can see oil run off the one vavle spring looking into the vavle cover hole about every 5 seconds and oil on the bottom 2 inches of the 1/4 inch drive used to prime it. But i had no oil pressure on the gauge (key on). I started the car and u could tell it had no oil and still no oil pressure I put a new connector on the sensor wire and still no pressure on gauge. I then took off the vortech oil feed line and it was confirmed no pressure so I shut it off. Not sure what the hell to do here any suggestions on whats happening or not?

[-ice-man-]

gents just a thought..sorry its been apart so long but is there something between the distributor drive and the oil pump drive I might of forgotten about the last 4 years thats likely sitting on my tool box someplace? The reason I ask this is the dist seams locked top to bottom so it should turn the oil driveshaft (not broken). And I have good oil pressure with someone holding the drill on when I watch the gauge yet nothing with dist in the car?

[-ice-man-]

solved..misplaced the oil pump drive ..**** what if its in the pan will it harm much?

[frdfandc]

Its possible it could damage the bottom end of the motor. Its best to get it out of the pan. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[-ice-man-]

not to sound dumb but is there enough space for it to pull out and flip flat in the pan or where could it be?

[Brcuda]

If I were you I would look for it very hard. But if I could not find it, I would pull the pan just in case. The only way if could get in your pan is if you dropped it while trying to install it.