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Re: Oil pressure relief spring/ball

To: "Rich Hill" <richard.hill@sri.com>, "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Oil pressure relief spring/ball
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:19:01 -0800charset="iso-8859-1"
References: <B4F3A4D0.1899%richard.hill@sri.com>
Is the 40 psi at idle or at speed? If at idle then it's great. If at speed
then it's still pretty good.

Larry Miller

----- Original Message -----
From "Rich Hill" <richard.hill at sri.com>
To: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 8:12 AM
Subject: Oil pressure relief spring/ball


> One of the things I want to replace on the 948 is the oil pressure relief
> spring and plunger -- not that I expect it to do much good, but it's so
easy
> to do it's worth trying (my warm oil pressure is down around 40 psi, so
> something will probably need to be done soon).
>
> Anyway, at Minimania on Saturday I picked up a spring and ball which they
> seem to prefer to the plunger.  Does anyone have any experiences or
> recommendations with regards to the ball vs. bullet shaped plunger?
> Apparently the ball is less prone to hanging up, but are there any
> advantages of the plunger?  Is there any reason Austin used the plunger
> instead of a ball in the first place?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich Hill
> '60 AH Sprite
> '79 MG Midget
>
>


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