Re: Oil pressure of a Spitfire 15000 engine

[Zink <zink@pdq.net>]

Becarjm@aol.com wrote:
> 
> 4 months later the light of
> the oil
> pressure began to be on at 1000 rm the camshaft was completly worn after 10 
>000 km !!!!!! so I
> changed
> it again in December and decided to rebuild all the top of the engine
> and
> yesterday I saw the horrible oil pressure light on at 1000 rm.
>> 
> Jean-Michel Becar
> becarjm@aol.com

Jean_Michel,
You probably have a bad oil pump.  You may have to drop the oil pan and
replace it.  But, as always this is JMO.

Larry Zink
1964 Spitfire4 Mk1
Houston, Texas