[Mgs] No oil pressure new B engine

[Don]

I had this happen to me on my '67 B GT many years ago.  After 
rebuilding the engine, I could not get oil pressure.  I even borrowed 
a oil pressure priming tool from Craft Machine Shop in Santa Rosa, 
the place that had done all the machine work on my engine.  After a 
lot of cranking and swearing, I pulled the engine, and starting 
taking things apart.  What I had done was used the wrong oil pump 
gasket; the gasket kit contains two different ones.  Either one will 
fit, but only one has holes in the right places to allow oil to flow.

Don Scott
Calistoga CA USA
1966 TR4A
1962 MGA Mk 2
1973 MGB GT (selling)
1963-7 MGB (seeking)
Misc. Japanese cars





At 11:10 AM 1/23/2011, Richard Ewald wrote:
>My buddy had a new engine built for his B.  Engine does not produce any oil
>pressure.(I told him I would build it, but did he listen?)
>I have pulled the line to the oil pressure gauge and pumped oil backwards
>into the engine per the suggestion on Barney's website.  We have even turned
>the engine backward, and still no oil pressure.  I tried pumping oil into
>the oil pressure gage line and then using shop air to force the oil down
>into the pump.  When I did this I could hear the air bubbling in the oil pan
>so I am fairly sure the pump is NOT dry at this point.
>Taking the hose off the inlet to the oil cooleer I can feel some pressure
>buld up, but I am getting no oil out.  We have carnked the engine with the
>plugs out till the batteries are dead.
>So I have two questions before I pull the pan.
>I seem to recall that either the gasket kit either came with two gaskets or
>it is possible to get the gasket on backwards/upside down.  Is my memory
>correct, or am I getting old?
>Any other suggestions you have before I pull the pan?
>Thanks
>Rick