[TR] oil pressure, felt filter?

dorpaul dorpaul at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 24 07:19:33 MDT 2008


Shown below is a message I got from an MG'er, do TR3's have this kind of oil
filter?
Paul


> Oil pressure at idle or at higher RPM?  There's going to be a big
> difference!  On MGAs and MGBs the idle oil pressure would be about 20 psi
> and at driving speed about 60 psi.
> Also, the type of oil filter and the weight of oil.  I don't have any
> experience with TRs (other than a TR8), just MGs and Sprites and other BMC
> cars.  I do know that there was a felt oil filter that would give me about
> 10 lb. more oil pressure than the cardboard filter on my MGA.  And Castrol
> 20-50 would not have as much reduction in oil pressure once the engine was
> hot, where other brands would show significantly lower oil pressure.



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