[Healeys] Oil pressure pipe

[BJ8Healeys]

My experience:  without some air in the hose or hard line the oil pressure
gauge needle will vibrate from oil pump pressure fluctuations.  The air acts
as a damper to prevent that.

 

I replaced the flexible hose without thinking about air getting into the
system and the gauge worked fine.  When I did think about it, I thought I
should bleed the air, which I did.  The needle immediately began vibrating
severely and continued until I disconnected the line at the gauge and
reconnected it without bleeding.  A couple years later during my return from
Conclave in San Diego, I noticed the needle vibrating again.  Investigation
found the nut on the line behind the gauge loose, with a drop of oil hanging
from it.  Apparently, the line bled itself through the loose nut.
Disconnecting and reconnecting the line fixed it.

 

Steve Byers

HBJ8L/36666

BJ8 Registry

AHCA Delegate at Large

Havelock, NC USA

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Simon
Lachlan
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 4:58 PM
To: 'healeys'
Subject: [Healeys] Oil pressure pipe

 

The flexible pipe which comes out of the block on the RHS, under the carbs,
and is the beginning of the pipework to the oil pressure gauge..............

I think that mine is seeping a leetle tiny seep where it comes out of the
block. Nothing that matters, but it won't get any better.

So, my guess is that there's a dodgy washer in there somewhere. Now, if I
take it all apart, air will get in to the pipe???

Does that matter?

If it does matter, what's the cure?....Run the engine and loosen off the
connection at the back of the gauge??

Simon 

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