[Healeys] oil pressure relief valve

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Hi Guys
          I have added a few pictures on HEALEY TECH at this web address

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                                Bob 1963 BJ7
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From: "Dave Porter" <frogeye at porterscustom.com>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 6:56 PM
To: "'Ray Carbone'" <racarbon at verizon.net>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] oil pressure relief valve

> It is and was duly pointed out by David Nock earlier.
> Dave..the other
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> frogeye at porterscustom.com
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> -----Original Message-----
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> To contribute to the confusion, I decided to replace my original oil feed
> flex
> tube with a new one I had purchased a while ago from Victoria British.  As
> with most replacements, this unit was far less substantial and I was 
> tempted
> to reinstall the 47-year old original.  When extracting the original, I
> inadvertently de-installed the adapter fitting attached to the engine and
> noted the very small orifice through which the oil would flow.  Based upon
> this very small passage, I am lead to think that this orifice is the
> mechanism
> that the engineers intended to buffer out the pulsations to secure a 
> steady
> gauge reading.  Should this be the case, air must be bled from the tube
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