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Re: [Healeys] oil pressure gauge problem

To: caddi5@comcast.net, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] oil pressure gauge problem
From: BJ8 Healeys <sbyers@ec.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 9:37:10 -0400
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Mitch, try tightening the nut on the hard line to the back of the gauge.  
During my return home to North Carolina through the California desert after 
Conclave 2008, my gauge needle also started to vibrate rapidly.  I found a drop 
of oil hanging off the line at the nut.  Tightening the nut fixed it.  
Some say the vibration is caused by air in the line, but I believe it's just 
the opposite -- no air in the line to serve as a cushion/damper to the pressure 
pulses.  I can't remember exactly now, but I believe I disconnected the line 
completely before reattaching and tightening the nut.
If just tightening doesn't fix it, try doing that.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA

---- caddi5@comcast.net wrote: 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> well the BJ8 runs very good.........everything works............but last 
> night when I arrived home..........I noticed the oil pressure needle was very 
> erratic  (moving very fast ...back and forth)  any ideas what's the problem??
> 
> 
> thanks
> Mitch
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