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TR2/3/3A Reading oil pressure gauge

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I got the new engine started today but will only run until the float bowls run out of fuel, which I have to fill manually . I may have a bad fuel pump. My question for now is how do you read the oil pressure gauge that is in kg/sq cm. The gauge has 4 numbers on it starting with 0 2 5 7. With the engine running I'm at the 3/4 mark or 5. According to Bill Piggott some cars came with this gauge. My car was originally dispatched to France so that may explain the different type gauge.
 
1 kg/cm2 is about 14 psi. So 5 kg/cm2 is about 70 psi. Sounds perfectly normal to me.
 
Thanks Randall I thought the pressure was fine. With the needle at 3/4 I figured it had to be close to 70psi.
 
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