I am using a generic Summit racing spin on adapter. The spin on adapter
comes with 4 thread adapters and some other kind of adapter that I didn't
use. You just spin on the correct threads and then thread it onto the pump.
It also comes with lines and the filter base too.
I had to change the two fittings on the adapter to 90deg from 180 (straight)
to clear the frame, and one of them has a second port for a mech gauge line.
I bought both at a hardware/plumbing store.
james
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Miller <v8mgb@yahoo.com>
To: james <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>; v8 <mgb-v8@autox.team.net>
Sent: 06 April, 2002 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: oil pressure
> When using a drill to prime the oil pump you will know
> when you are pumping oil due to the increased load on
> the drill motor. The lumpy feeling may just be some
> air in the line.
>
> What are you using for an oil filter adapter?
>
>
> --- james <jamesnazarian@netzero.net> wrote:
> > For those that aren't Larry...I tried to prime the
> > oil pump today to no
> > avail. The pump is packed with Vaseline FWIW.
> > Recollection had it that you
> > spin the pump CC. I made up a drive tool threw it
> > in my drill, aimed a
> > mirror at the gauge, and started spinning. Eight
> > minutes later nothing had
> > changed. Got worried, called Larry for advice.
> >
> > So here we are. I pulled the oil filter to see if
> > oil ran out (implying
> > that some had moved), none did. So at this point I
> > knew it was a pump
> > problem not a gauge problem (mechanical, brand new).
> > So I called my dad for
> > info. He has a copy of a Chilton manual that covers
> > all cars from the 40s
> > to the 70s or so. I recalled seeing a dizzy
> > rotation direction listed, and
> > I recalled this being opposite for Buick and Olds.
> > He looked and both turn
> > clockwise.
> >
> > Thought a little and decided no harm in turning the
> > pump backwards, and by
> > my estimation clockwise is correct and CC is
> > backwards. So in theory I had
> > been spinning it backwards for eight minutes.
> > Flipped the lever on the
> > drill and hit the trigger, for about two seconds it
> > spun the same then I
> > started feeling the teeth of the oil pump. Kind of
> > a thump thump thump,
> > just as I released the trigger in dismay I heard the
> > sound of oil being
> > pumped out of the engine and onto the floor. I had
> > a look and sure enough,
> > a fitting that I had cut for clearance had burst.
> > No problem it is a $3.50
> > part and I don't need the clearance cut on it
> > anymore anyways.
> >
> > So in theory I have oil preassure, I still have to
> > replace the fitting and
> > try again, to see what kind of preassure. About the
> > lopey feeling of the
> > rotation, has anyone else experienced this? Is the
> > drill usually turned
> > clockwise or CC? Is anything out of the ordinary in
> > my current situation?
> >
> > Lastly, Larry and I were chatting about the
> > alignment marks on the pump
> > gears, are they of any importance? I miked one of
> > the gears and they didn't
> > seem to have an up or down side, do they still need
> > to be aligned?
> >
> > james
> > 71BGTV8 so very close to done
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