Re: [lro] Under pressure!

From: Peter Ogilvie (roverhi@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 15:34:39 EST

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    If your crank journals were out of round enough to
    require a regrind, a rebuild was in your near future
    anyway. Why weren't you using the Factory pickup
    location, a SPOT, obstinence, or other???

    Aloha
    Peter O.

    --- Doug Sinclair <dns@interlog.com> wrote:
    >
    > I have oil pressure again. Maybe I never lost it.
    > I have 50 PSI at 65 MPH
    > (3600 RPM), though only 10 PSI or so at hot idle.
    >
    > In my quest for oil pressure I have:
    > - Replaced the pump gears and relief spring
    > - Re-ground the crankshaft
    > - Replaced the main and rod bearings
    >
    > The problem, it seems, was that my oil pressure
    > sensor was in the wrong
    > place. I had it plumbed into the rocker oil feed,
    > where it measured only 25
    > PSI. I now have a 3/8" NPT fitting driven into the
    > oil filter bracket where
    > I get a much higher reading. Who knows if any of
    > the engine rebuild helped.
    >
    > I would like to thank all of the list members who
    > helped to answer my oil
    > delivery questions and got me to this point.
    >
    > Doug
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