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Home made Spitfire head oiler..

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Subject: Home made Spitfire head oiler..
From: cwnicholls@juno.com (Clark W Nicholls)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:26:20 PST
Ok, still more dead braincells are coming alive.

Years ago I put together an oil line from the block gallery to the
bolt-plugged hole on the back of the Spitfire head to get oil up there
for an engine with a blown headgasket.  Obviously, these threaded holes
are not your standard and I've been scratching my head and searching the
Home Depot to figure out how I did it!  I think I remember now...

The only scenario I can come up with is that I used 2 adaptors for
installing a Smiths oil pressure gage and copper tubing between them. 
That's small diameter, but it worked for this application.

I was at Pep Boys today and they had an assortment of various fittings,
but I couldn't come up with anything that looked good.  I still believe
there's something out there...

Clark

PS, I'm boiling the Clutch master now, the innards don't wanna come out,
It's sticking out somewhat and I can see the seal, but when I get the
compressor going again...  Maybe if I soak it in Gasoline the seal will
melt...

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