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RE: TR6 oil pressure

To: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: RE: TR6 oil pressure
From: Gernot Vonhoegen <gernot.vonhoegen@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 16:36:04 +0100
That sounds exactly like the pressures I get.

Gernot

> ----------
>       100PSI is the normal TR6 relief valve setting.  Worn TR6 engines
> often won't get 100PSI except when cold, or not even then.  My '70
> gets
> 90-95psi at cold idle, and 65-75psi hot at rpm, and 30-50 psi at hot
> idle.
> Many other engines have lower oil pressure settings: my old Sprites
> had the
> relief set for 60PSI.
> 
> -- 
> Randell Jesup, Scala US R&D, Ex-Commodore-Amiga Engineer class of '94
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