[Healeys] No oil pressure

[Simon Lachlan]

Your email reminded me of something I saw on YouTube quite recently:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMeDik1x8Aw

I don’t know if you have still got an original type oil filter on your car...might it be possible that you reassembled it incorrectly or even left out some vital bit?

You haven’t touched your oil pump?? So the filter is quite possibly the only real bottle neck?

Anyhow, watch the clip. I thought it was quite good....

Simon

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael Oritt
Sent: 05 December 2016 17:50
To: Austin Healey
Subject: [Healeys] No oil pressure

 

This morning I drained my old engine oil on my 100 and replaced the oil filter, then refilled the sump to the correct level and restarted the engine to check for oil pressure.

 

After several seconds I became concerned when the oil pressure gauge needle stayed pegged.  I also have a low oil pressure warning light, the sender for which is mounted to the block at the point where the flex hose normally attaches and it is staying lit.  

 

By this time I had run the engine for at least 30 seconds and was becoming very concered, so I shut it down, removed the valve cover and disconnected the banjo bolt going to the rocker shaft, then restarted the engine--no oil is coming out of the bolt.

 

Thinking that perhaps the oil pump lost prime I removed the flex hose from the coiled copper pipe gong to the oil pressure gauge and back-fed some engine oil, then reattached the hose to the line but on restarting again nothing has changed.

 

Though this has never happened before I have heard of oil pumps not repriming themselves and/or taking a while to do so after an oil change.  I have already run the engine for at least a minute in the several restarts and am frankly concerned that serious damage may have already happened.

 

Any thoughts or suggestions will be appreciated.

 

Best--Michael Oritt

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