[Healeys] No oil pressure

[Michael Salter]

Sorry correction...
In my previous post I stated that we did 20 miles with no oil in the engine
of AHX12....my bad....I just checked my notes....the stage was 20 miles in
total we only did about 7 miles with no oil....
I put it down to aging grey matter....
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/?p=39

Michael S
BN1 #174


On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In Targa Newfoundland, after grounding on a rock at the beginning of a
> long stage and breaking the drain plug out of the sump, we drove AHX12 for
> 20 miles at race speeds with NO OIL at all in the engine.
> After the event and 3 more days of competition we disassembled the engine
> and could find no evidence of damage...
> That experience convinced me that the few seconds required to achieve oil
> pressure after an oil and filter change is not something to worry about!!!
> Michael S
> BN1 #174
>
> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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