If all you are doing is starting it in the garage on level ground, there will
be more than enough oil in the oil pan even once it gets pumped to the
accusump. Alternately, same issue on overfilling - unlikely to cause any
problems, and you could overfill by one quart, then go back and and another
once the accusump is filled.
I use one of the tanks pictured below to fill the system when I am starting up
a freshly rebuilt engine. This forces oil through all the galleys at over 30
PSI. I just put in 4 quarts and put most of the oil in this way, then
disconnect the hose from the oil galley and start the engine. The only problem
with this one is it?s a pain to fill - Summit sells one with a bigger fill
port, but more money.
BTW, Accusump will rebuild their product, though I think all that?s in there is
a big o-ring.
On Dec 1, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Bud R via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
Listerati,
I?ve got a question about how best to charge a new accusump. I replaced my old
one because I feared it might have been compromised with some shrapnel from
blowing up an engine and the fact it was a few decades old.
I?m trying to minimize the engine being started without oil pressure as much as
possible. I?d like to keep it to two times. I had to start it once (to break in
the new cam and lifters) without charging the accusump because I wanted to
catch any ?stuff? from the new engine in the K &P reusable oil filter and
didn?t want the new accusump to be involved in case there was metal particles,
etc. as a result of the first running. Fortunately there was none, except a
tiny tiny piece of gasket that had escaped all the cleaning and block cleansing
that had been done.
Now I?m ready to do one more start up and my plan is to run it so that the oil
gets filtered one more time and while it is running to flip the switch (it has
an electric valve) to the accusump (2 quart) to fill it up and pressurize it.
Question is, should I add extra oil initially before the start up (which means
it will be 2 quarts over full) or fill it up once I throw the switch while the
accusump takes 2 quarts of oil from the existing oil in the system?
My concerns by are using the former method overfilling can cause problems and
the latter method means the system might be low on oil until I can quickly pour
another two quarts in.
What to do? At this point I?m leaning towards the latter method.
Thanks
Bud Rolofson
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20171201/4e3753b8/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Screen Shot 2017-12-01 at 1.03.35 PM.png
Type: image/png
Size: 1031125 bytes
Desc: not available
URL:
<http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20171201/4e3753b8/attachment-0001.png>
|
