- 1. Problem?? with oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: "Brashear, Jack, N" <JNBrashear@garverengineers.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:22:43 -0500
- Hi Folks, I can't seem to keep the oil pressure in my "comfort zone." 29E engine in my BT7 Mk2. I bought this car new and I've always turned my own wrenches so technospeak is OK by me. The engine is
- /html/healeys/2005-05/msg00439.html (8,065 bytes)
- 2. Re: Problem?? with oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: Mike MacLean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:18:19 -0700
- You need to hook up a CALIBRATED oil pressure gauge to see if the gauge on the car is correct first. My Bugeye read 5 PSI at idle on the dash and 40 PSI at speed. After I hooked up a calibrated gaug
- /html/healeys/2005-05/msg00442.html (9,017 bytes)
- 3. RE: Problem?? with oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: "Len and/or Marge" <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:57:35 -0700
- I picked up between 5 and 10 pounds of pressure last week unexpectedly. I was getting some valve noise and having trouble setting a carburetor when I took my own advise that I have expressed before o
- /html/healeys/2005-05/msg00443.html (9,887 bytes)
- 4. Re: Problem?? with oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: "davidwjones" <davidwjones@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:33:09 -0400
- When I was a teenager, I had a '65 Mustang I sold because of chronic low oil pressure...... The new owner found a restricted capillary tube to the pressure gauge.... Drove it for at least another 5 y
- /html/healeys/2005-05/msg00445.html (9,235 bytes)
- 5. RE: Problem?? with oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: bspidell@comcast.net
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:30:46 +0000
- Aren't those particular banjo washers supposed to be copper-crush? Could explain why one was blown out. bs ** Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net '67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 10
- /html/healeys/2005-05/msg00449.html (8,708 bytes)
- 6. RE: Problem?? with oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: "Len and/or Marge" <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:53:32 -0700
- Bob: I agree. I thought the same thing as I was taking it apart. The top washer came apart as three pieces: copper, rubber ring, copper. The broken bottom one looked more like plastic than fibre. Thi
- /html/healeys/2005-05/msg00453.html (10,164 bytes)
- 7. Re: Problem?? with oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: Blue One Hundred <healey.nut@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 08:16:19 +0800
- Another thing is the gear pumps aren't so great for maintaining pressure at lower RPMs when the oil gets warm. The older Rotary Vane pump is much better, more reliable, and pumps more oil at lower R
- /html/healeys/2005-05/msg00456.html (8,197 bytes)
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