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Re: Oil pressure relief spring/ball

To: Rich Hill <richard.hill@sri.com>, spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Oil pressure relief spring/ball
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:39:02 -0800
References: <B4F26FEC.186C%richard.hill@sri.com>
Rich,

If it's idling at 40 lbs warm, I wouldn't worry about it.

What is the cold start-up pressure?

Gerard


At 8:12 AM -0800 3/14/00, Rich Hill wrote:
>One of the things I want to replace on the 948 is the oil pressure relief
>spring and plunger -- not that I expect it to do much good, but it's so easy
>to do it's worth trying (my warm oil pressure is down around 40 psi, so
>something will probably need to be done soon).
>
>Anyway, at Minimania on Saturday I picked up a spring and ball which they
>seem to prefer to the plunger.  Does anyone have any experiences or
>recommendations with regards to the ball vs. bullet shaped plunger?
>Apparently the ball is less prone to hanging up, but are there any
>advantages of the plunger?  Is there any reason Austin used the plunger
>instead of a ball in the first place?
>
>Thanks,
>Rich Hill
>'60 AH Sprite
>'79 MG Midget




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