......Maybe the pickup on the oil pump fell off? Maybe the oil pump shaft
sheared? You checked to see if the bypass spring and ball were broken or
stuck? You couldn't have enough crud in the oil pan to block the pump uptake,
could you?
With the cooler, did you try a filter without a check valve in it, as
suggested by another lister?
Dave J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jwhlyadv@aol.com
To: healeys@autox.team.net
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:01 PM
Subject: Still no oil pressure......
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I removed the plugs, pre-filled a
new oil filter, triple checked the oil level and cranked the engine, no
improvement.
Removed the oil line to the gauge and the fitting on the block. Improvised
with what I had on hand and took a small funnel and attached it to some
vacuum
hose scavenged off a 1970's era Parnelli Jones Vacuum gauge and poured oil
in.
Reconnected everything. No Improvement.
Tonight I went out and bought a pump type oil can and will retry priming the
pump again. Perhaps my dribbling of oil through a vacuum hose was
insufficient.
The only thing I might have screwed up on is the oil filter itself. I
changed
the oil in the BJ8, the BN4 and the Porsche all at the same time in an
assembly line fashion.
I assumed the oil filters were the same on the BJ8 and BN4. Both are spin on
adapters. The BN4 has an oil cooler fitted. Does this make a difference? The
oil cooler uses a boss under the spin on oil filter adapter, steel braided
lines to the cooler, not the same one shown in the Moss catalog. The cooler
probably came from Nock about ten years ago. Does anyone else have this oil
cooler?
I have an email in to David.
I built the car from boxes of parts with less hassle than this oil change is
costing me.....
Thanks,
Jim Werner
Louisville, KY
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