I've not been following your rebuild, but
often when I pull a head for a 'quickie' valve job or some such, I spill oil
into the water jacket. It eventually makes its way to the rad cap, and freaks
me out.
The other part of it is that you can run oil in your water with no real damage
to the engine. The opposite is not true, as the coolant will kill your
bearings.
So before stripping things apart, make sure there's nothing obviously wrong,
(like no oil pressure) then run it a bit. If the problem persists, THEN get
worried about it.
As to the filter- if you're seeing pressure at the gauge, that's post the
filter. I'm wondering if something odd like the previous fuel filter thread is
going on here.
fwiw,
Toby
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From: "Daryl Smith" <drlsmith@telus.net>
> Well, just had another setback the other night.
>
> Ran my new engine to try to figure out where an oil leak was. Found it, and
> shut the engine off.
> While draining the oil (first change), I was checking over the engine and
> pulled the rad cap off.
>
> There is a small amount of oil in the coolant! Not much. Checking the oil that
> I drained out
> doesn't seem to have any coolant in it.
>
> I also found that when I pulled the oil filter off there was very little oil
> in it, I was expecting some overflow
> when I lifted it, but there was NONE! I do have the "tube" in the filter
> housing and it was also empty..?
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