[Mgs] 64B progress

[Dan DiBiase]

That's great, David!
I wish I could get my '76 running again so I could get back to work on the '65.... Hopefully this week I'll have diagnosed it.

Dan D'76B, '65BCentral NJ USA     From: dcouncill--- via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
 To: Barrie via <mgs at autox.team.net>; MG-MGB at yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 11:09 AM
 Subject: [Mgs] 64B progress
   
Two weeks ago, I was near completion of a rebuild of my 64B 3-main engine. But I needed to replace the oil cooler that had developed a crack on its mounting bracket. I located another cooler from the list and installed it last  week. Then it was time to start the engine - but first I had to get the oil flowing by turning the engine with the starter. I had insured that the pump was primed, and both the filter and cooler were filled with oil when I installed them to speed the process up. But after cranking for what seemed an excessive period of time with no oil pressure, I started to worry. I could see oil was moving because the level in the sump had decreased a far bit but nothing was coming out of the oil pressure hose. So I stopped for the day/weekend. Research on the Internet indicated that in fact, the process can be very slow getting the oil through so I resumed the process again last Saturday. Another 30 seconds or so of cranking and I got oil pressure. Then it was time to hook up the ignition system and start it - as soon as I turned the key, it fired right up, idling at 60 psi. I let it run for 20 minutes at 2000 rpm to seat the tappets and had to tighten a few fittings (had slight leak from temp sender and slight seep on oil cooler fitting). So its close to returning to the road - just need a few short test drives around the neighborhood but hopefully the car will be back on the Washington State University campus later this week after almost a year absence. (I drove the 72B in today, it will be about 90 F on the top down cruise home this afternoon)

David Councill64 B67 BGT72 B

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