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Pizzi348

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What should your oil pressure be at idle and when cruising at 2200 RPM?

Also, when I slow down and can sometimes get a whiff of a burning oil smell ... or so it seems? Does anyone get any smells like this from their cars. Maybe it's the carbs or something. I don't know.
 
For my 100 ...40 at idle 60 when running.....since there is always an oil leak to fix...check for little oil leaks aoound all the gaskets..sure you will find your smell
 
Burning oil

Tell me about it

My old girl needs a rebore

Can clear a pint inside 40 miles, yet not much blue smoke about when the engine is warm - bit of blue smoke when cold and always when putting the engine under a bit of pressure with the accelerator and can smell it when starting up from cold and travelling around 40 MPH until the engine is nice and warm.

When I first bought the car I had the original carb air cleaners on. The oil breather tube is connect6ed to the rear filter. Changed the filters to ram tubes and there is no such connection - as I am burning oil at a great rate, the crank case gets a little more pressurized than it should and as the breather tube was not connected there was a very noticable smell of burning oil in the cockpit, coming back from the engine bay. Since then I have added an aluminium tube to the rear ram using Lumiweld and recoupled the oil breather on to that - result no smell

Bob
 
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