[Healeys] No oil pressure

[Oudesluys]

If at all possible fill up the oil filter or oil filter housing before 
fitting it to the engine. OK, a messy job. Letting it idle for a few 
minutes should do no harm to the engine at all, but do not rev the 
engine or run it on the choke.
Kees Oudesluijs



Op 5-12-2016 om 18:50 schreef Michael Oritt:
> 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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