[Spridgets] Oil Relief Gallery

[dwoerpel at wi.net]

Mike,

You may be on the right track.  Worked on a Messerschmidt Bf 109 several
years ago and she blew an oil line on run up.  Seems an in-house made
gasket was put in upside down and actually covered the passage way.  Oops.
We had a lot of oil to clean up.  Nope, I didn't install the gasket!  We
did use 2 bags of oil-dry though.

No help, just an anecdote.

Good luck.

Dave W.


> I have a serious oil overpressure problem with the 1275 in my Bugeye.  An
> adjustable oil relief valve from APT did not help, even when adjusted all
> the
> way out.  David Anton suspects the oil gallery relief hole is plugged or
> was
> inadvertantly sealed by mistake along with the othe other galleries that
> are
> supposed to be sealed when the short block was rebuilt a few years ago.  I
> will be pulling this engine in the next few weeks to try to determine just
> exactly where the overpressure is coming from.  Does anyone know exactly
> where
> I should look to determine which hole is the relief gallery hole in the
> area
> of the oil pan under the engine?
>
> Mike MacLean
> 60 Sprite
> 56 BN2
> 02 Heritage Springer
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