Re: Low Oil pressure.
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:42 am
here here Alan, it easy and will definitely point you in the right direction.
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alanr wrote:Thoughts..
I haven't seen anywhere in this long rambling thread where the engine oil pressure has been double checked and confirmed that the oil pressure is actually low or non-existant. Just relying on what the gauge in the car tells you is not good enough for analysis of the problem.
I would take the gauge sender switch on the block out and connect up a mechanical hand held gauge and start the engine and definitely confirm that you do have an oil pressure problem before going any further!
Alan
billwill wrote:What do they call that tool & where might one get one ?
billwill wrote:Aha, among the tools I acquired from my late father's workshop, I've found one that will do the trick.
Its a grease gun with a screw-in plunger, so it can produce many PSI. It has a weird universal linkage on it and a strange grease attachment so at first I ruled it out, but yesterday I found that the end of the wobbly pipes that fits into the barrel actually unscrews and has the same thread as brake pipes, so I will be able to attach a pipe to my oil-pressure gauge take off and screw a lot of flushing oil into the galleries.
There's lots of grease in it at present, so it's going to be a mucky job cleaning it out to take oil instead, but someone's go to do it.
englishmaninwales wrote:From memory, I think with the oil filter off you can see the piston for the relief valve - then determine if it’s stuck open.