...looking for a good oil drain-plug!
I was driving the '63 midget over to John Carey's to show
to John and Drew, when halfway the oil pressure dropped to
~25 than stayed there. I thought, hmmm ok, I need to get a
new oil pump....a minute later it went to zero, bakc up to
fifteen zero, fifteen....five....by teh time I got to teh
side of the highway, it already started making a funny
sound! ;-0 I looked under to see a missing oil drain plug!
Aaaarg! I had checked the plug on the engine when I
installed it a few weeks ago, but somehow it still loosened
up and fell out! (This has never happened before to me!) So
now I have the 1098 with the 1275 head sitting in the
garage with low compression, but good oil pressure, and a
1098 int he beastie with good compression and who knows
what sort of damage it caused. minimum need new bearings,
possibly fried the crank and cam? ;-0
And it was running so nice....I was really enjoying driving
it.....
This is why I got used to safety-wiring important things
like we do on the aircraft engines. I didn't bother on this
as it's suposed to only be in for a few months until I
build up the other engine......guess I should have done it
after all.
Paul
(but Hey, when UI finally made it over to Drew's in the
Discovery, as least I got to finally pick up the bugeye
front end!) ;-)
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