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Re: Oil Priming.

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Subject: Re: Oil Priming.
From: Chip Old <fold@bcpl.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:09:02 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:43 -0500, Gene Fodor wrote:

> Listers...It is rather chilly in Vermont today. 3 Degrees! atound my 
> house. Eliot, '53 TD (in witer storage in a heated to 50 degrees garage) 
> always get a good 2 dozen hand cranks in the springs before the starter 
> is applied...Oil pressure is instantaneous to about 55 psi. Then after 
> 'he' warms up it drops to about 45 - 50 psi at running RPM that were it 
> stays there.  At idle (500-600 RPM) the oil pressure will drop to about 
> 20 psi. Not being that conversant with the system, could there be some 
> kind blockage in the sump or lines?

That oil pressure behavior is perfecly normal. Why do you suspect a 
problem?

-- 
Chip Old                  1948 M.G. TC
Cub Hill, Maryland, US    TC6710  XPAG7430
fold@bcpl.net             NEMGTR #2271

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