on 6/3/04 5:51 AM, Bob Howard at mgbob@juno.com wrote:
> These engines don't hold nearly as much oil as TD engines. Late TDs,
> with a finned aluminium pan, hold about six US quarts. All the MGBs, with
> and w/o oil coolers, hold less. One wonders if oils were improved so
> much in that time that smaller quantities were OK, or what other factors
> might have lead to the smaller sumps. I note that my 2002 Toyota Tacoma
> four-cylinder engine wants six quarts.
Interesting points. I don't know if the factor would be improved oil, or
improved oil circulation design (more efficient use of the volume of oil).
The Toyota engine is doubtless an OHC design which would naturally have more
internal oil passage volume than a pushrod motor.
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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