<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Curt/Kees--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">I always try to fill filters to minimize the amount of air that gets into the system but in this case with the filter mounting horizontally to the engine I could not get too much in. In any case even a full canister would not have solved the problem as the oil pump was apparently not able to overcome whatever resistance the filter was providing. and pull liquid up from the sump. As soon as I removed the filter the pump was eventually able to prime itself. </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><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Curtis Arndt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cnaarndt@gmail.com" target="_blank">cnaarndt@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><div>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.<br><br></div>Cheers,<br><br></div>Curt<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 1:14 AM, Oudesluys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coudesluijs@chello.nl" target="_blank">coudesluijs@chello.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<div class="m_-3486279498818489968m_2018212459888901222moz-cite-prefix">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.<br>
Kees Oudesluijs<br>
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Op 5-12-2016 om 18:50 schreef Michael Oritt:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">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>
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<div class="gmail_default">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>
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<div class="gmail_default">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>
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<div class="gmail_default">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>
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<div class="gmail_default">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>
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<div class="gmail_default">Any thoughts or suggestions will be
appreciated.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Best--Michael Oritt</div>
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