triumphs
[Top] [All Lists]

RE: [TR] low TR6 oil pressure - especially if you're using

To: "Triumphs Digest" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: [TR] low TR6 oil pressure - especially if you're using
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 17:06:11 -0700
> The solution Fred put forward was
> unbelievably simple - if you also happen to be using Castrol
> 20/50 oil (which
> I think most of us do): take the pressure relief valve out, clean it with
> lacquer thinner, put it back in and presto, the oil pressure
> should be right.
> This ran against years of commercial indoctrination that Castrol GTX could
> never do anything wrong.

Happened once to me, too, on a non-Triumph.  Just one of the reasons I won't
use Castrol.

Randall


===  This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register
===     http://www.vtr.org



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>