[Healeys] oil pressure relief valve

[Ray Carbone]

Hi Dave,

 Sorry, must have missed Dave Nock's response.  I guess my thoughts and 
experience just enforce Dave's comment.

 All the best,

 Ray
 ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dave Porter" <frogeye at porterscustom.com>
> To: "'Ray Carbone'" <racarbon at verizon.net>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 6:56 PM
> Subject: RE: [Healeys] oil pressure relief valve
>
>
>> It is and was duly pointed out by David Nock earlier.
>> Dave..the other
>>
>>
>> frogeye at porterscustom.com
>>
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>> Albuquerque, NM USA 87107
>> 505-352-1378
>> 1954 BN2  1959 AN5
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>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> To contribute to the confusion, I decided to replace my original oil feed
>> flex
>> tube with a new one I had purchased a while ago from Victoria British. 
>> As
>> with most replacements, this unit was far less substantial and I was 
>> tempted
>> to reinstall the 47-year old original.  When extracting the original, I
>> inadvertently de-installed the adapter fitting attached to the engine and
>> noted the very small orifice through which the oil would flow.  Based 
>> upon
>> this very small passage, I am lead to think that this orifice is the
>> mechanism
>> that the engineers intended to buffer out the pulsations to secure a 
>> steady
>> gauge reading.  Should this be the case, air must be bled from the tube