[Fot] Charging a new accusump?

[Greg Blake]

Here is what I do, not sure about others. 

Remove the accusump and you will see that it has two blind holes on each end cap. Take a couple of 5/16" ( I think) bolts and wrap them with a couple turns of tape. Put the bolts in the end caps and using a couple screw drivers, unthread the top of the accusump. Now you can throughly clean the inside and fill with three quarts of new oil. Inspect the o ring, reinstall the cap, and place back in the car. Once in the car, and ready to start, open the valve and add 60 psi and check for leaks. The manual says to wait over night to ensure you don't have any loss of pressure on the air side, you will skip this step since you want to use this charge as a prelube.  When ready to fire the engine, bleed the air side of the accusump to 7-10 psi. And you are done. 

I do this every other race weekend. I was shocked the first time I cleaned the accusump. Even though I change the oil for every event, I had a lot of sludge in the accusump. Cleaning every other event has drastically reduced the sludge. 

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> On Dec 1, 2017, at 11:39 AM, Bud R via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> Listerati,
> 
> I’ve got a question about how best to charge a new accusump. I replaced my old one because I feared it might have been compromised with some shrapnel from blowing up an engine and the fact it was a few decades old.
> 
> I’m trying to minimize the engine being started without oil pressure as much as possible. I’d like to keep it to two times. I had to start it once (to break in the new cam and lifters) without charging the accusump because I wanted to catch any “stuff” from the new engine in the K &P reusable oil filter and didn’t want the new accusump to be involved in case there was metal particles, etc. as a result of the first running. Fortunately there was none, except a tiny tiny piece of gasket that had escaped all the cleaning and block cleansing that had been done.
> 
> Now I’m ready to do one more start up and my plan is to run it so that the oil gets filtered one more time and while it is running to flip the switch (it has an electric valve)  to the accusump (2 quart) to fill it up and pressurize it. 
> 
> Question is, should I add extra oil initially before the start up (which means it will be 2 quarts over full) or fill it up once I throw the switch while the accusump takes 2 quarts of oil from the existing oil in the system?
> 
> My concerns by are using the former method overfilling can cause problems and the latter method means the system might be low on oil until I can quickly pour another two quarts in.
> 
> What to do? At this point I’m leaning towards the latter method.
> 
> Thanks
> Bud Rolofson
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