<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">After the event and 3 more days of competition we disassembled the engine and could find no evidence of damage...<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">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!!!<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Michael S<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">BN1 #174 <br></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_-3128429849552983506m_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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