<div dir="ltr">stock oil filer or spin-on? <div>have you removed the filter and tried another one? Might be a big clog in the can.... WAG here</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ira Erbs<div>Portland,OR</div><div><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> _______ _______</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> (_________________________)</span></div><div> BT7 engine and disk brakes</div><div><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif">Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.</strong><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(0,0,0)"> – </span><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;background:rgb(0,0,0);color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif">Enzo Ferrari</em><br></div><div>Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Michael Oritt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.oritt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Any thoughts or suggestions will be appreciated.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div>
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