[Healeys] No oil pressure

[Curtis Arndt]

Kees beat me to the punch.  I always prim a spin-on oil filter (as full as
I can get it without spilling) before I install it. To me this was just one
of the basics of an oil change procedure.

Cheers,

Curt

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:

> 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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