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RE: Lubricants

To: "'Barry Schwartz'" <bschwart@pacbell.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Lubricants
From: "Randall Young" <randallyoung@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:01:47 -0800charset="iso-8859-1"
Importance: Normal
Actually, on the TR2/3/4 engines, it taps in _before_ the filter.  This is
probably a leftover from the TR2/early 3, which had bypass type filters,
where the filter output went into the pan.

Randall
59 TR3A daily driver

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Schwartz
>
> FWIW. . .
> The oil pressure sender "tap" is (on almost every engine I've seen
> including the TR variety) directly in the oil galleries to the main
> bearings just after the pressure relief valve AND any filtering (spin
> on/cannister type).  It's a pretty accurate measurement of oil bearing
> pressure at the mains and the camshaft journals.
>


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