At least you proved that you can do a lower end
overhaul without pulling the engine. Nice survival
technigue. Can't imagine how much fun it was, though.
Doing it with the engine upside down and gravity
working for me, wasn't all that easy.
That's the first that I'd heard of a pick up off the
Rocker feed. You're talking the pipe that goes from
the block to the head at the right rear of the engine,
right. Shouldn't be surprized there was/is such an
attachment as Rover seemed to do a lot of SPOT's on
their own, just to confuse things.
Aloha
Peter O.
--- Doug Sinclair <dns@interlog.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Ogilvie wrote:
> > 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???
>
> From the factory, I have an oil pressure warning
> switch on the rocker feed
> and an electric oil pressure sensor on the oil
> filter adapter. The gauge
> for that sensor is long missing. The thread on both
> the sensor and the
> switch is British, and I was unable to find an
> adapter that would take me to
> NPT. I did, however, find an adapter that would
> mate with one of the
> couplings in the rocker feed.
>
> It wasn't until recently that I found the 3/8" plug
> in the oil filter
> adapter, buried under the grime. It's on the other
> side of the oil filter
> from the factory sensor, but it's probably close
> enough.
>
> I do agree that the crank could have used regrinding
> anyhow. Next time I do
> that, I'm going to take the engine out of the truck
> first. Lifting the
> crank into the block from underneath was not fun.
>
> Doug
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