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healeyboz

healeyboz

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So I got to thinking. Actually I got to being paranoid!! With the oil pressure issues that I have been reading I was wondering about my own. It might just be that I am waiting for the head to come back for the third time and carbs from Hap and have the time to wonder about things that haven't happened yet.

However, if the head is removed and the motor is turned over, should oil be coming up through any of the holes? Or would the head need to be attached for some sort of pressure/vacuum/etc?

Remember, this is only a hypothetical question!
 
If you turn the engine over with the head off, oil should spurt from the oil feed hole in the top of the block. (If you have oil in the motor, and a functional, primed oil pump.)

Glen
 
The oil pump will not loose it's prime unless you removed or replaced it or the engine has been sitting for a few years.
 
The last one I had to prime had been sitting for over five years. My '64 and the '72 had been sitting longer than that, and didn't need it.
Jeff
 
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