[Healeys] SOS oil pressure issues

[Richard Ewald]

Use Vaseline not white grease or wheel bearing grease. Vaseline will  
melt into the engine oil the first time the engine warms up. The  
others won't.
Rick

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On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:44, "Guy R Day" <grday at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Try filling the oil pump with a very soft grease such as Vaseline  
> when assembling.
>
> Guy R Day
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen Miller"  
> <allen100m at yahoo.com>
> To: <Healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:39 PM
> Subject: [Healeys] SOS oil pressure issues
>
>
>> Thanks to all of you for your help. I thought it might be a good  
>> idea to list all the possibilities and post them to the Forum so  
>> that there is a useful checklist for fixing the issues. Here are  
>> your inputs, all of which bear investigation. If anyone else has  
>> another suggestion, I will include that as well in a post to the  
>> Healey Forum (which I am learning to use after a few years of  
>> unblissful ignorance it exists).
>>
>> 1. prime the pump by all means possible (through top filler in  
>> rocker, through oil pressure gauge port, or by pumping under  
>> pressure through the external oil lines, etc.
>> 2. purge oil lines leading to and from oil cooler of air
>> 3. check for blockages in galleries
>> 4. ensure builder put back any end plugs to oil galleries
>> 5. make sure drive spindle is in place for oil pump; verify pump  
>> engaged with cam gearing
>> 6. ensure spin on adapter is upside-up
>> 7. pray to Lucas, bastard child of Vulcan and Venus
>>
>> I am sure one or all of the above will help
>>
>> Allen Miller
>> BN2/M
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