[Mgs] Something to consider when you buy an oil filter for your MGB.

[Dan DiBiase]

I agree, Paul, and for those of us with cars without a manual choke, you'd
have to pull the coil wire every time you wanted to take a ride. The only
time I do that and 'pre-pressure' the engine is the first start after
sitting for several months over winter.

Dan D
'76B, '65B
Central NJ USA
http://dandibiase.cbintouch.com/


On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 7:42 AM PaulHunt73 via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> For 30 years with one car and 24 with another, and a combined 160k miles
> in my ownership, I've never done anything other than pull the choke, switch
> on, and start up.  This includes after several days or even a month between
> runs, where the pressure takes longer to rise compared to overnight.  Oil
> pressures haven't changed during my ownership, and when I checked the
> shells on one of the cars after about 80k in my ownership, with an unknown
> number of miles before that, they were still at or just inside the
> tolerance for new bearings, with no signs of wear in the white metal.  That
> had been switched off after getting fully up to temperature, then left for
> a few days, and when I took the caps off the bearings and journals were
> smothered in oil, and it was dripping on me.
>
> It just isn't a problem.  These cars are just not that delicate, they are
> basically tractor and lorry engines.  I suspect it's battery vendors that
> tell you to crank until you get oil pressure :o)
>
> Having said that oil filters definitely DO vary - hugely, and the MANN
> 916/1 is my preferred filter, despite having a four-letter name.  Maybe you
> should have added "Beginning with 'F'" :o)
>
> PaulH.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> First you crank the engine with the starter motor, then you wait until you
> get some oil pressure indication, and only then you pull out the choke
> lever to enable the engine to start.
>
> That way, you prevent unnecessary stress on the bearings etc., caused by
> the engine running with unsufficient lubrication.
>
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