This has been a good thread :-)
I had forgotten the timing chain feed and have an engine to reassemble
shortly.
Have never come across the oil filter gasket problem before either.
Will note these tips in my workshop manual for "next time"
Thanks
Keith
55 Californian
57 Rapier
----- Original Message -----
From: "jumpinjan" <jservaites@woh.rr.com>
To: "Jarrid Gross" <jgross@econolite.com>
Cc: <alpines@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Oil pressure
> Jarrid Gross wrote:
> >
> > Steven,
> >
> > There are two other common sources of oil loss on rootes engines.
> >
> > 1) One is the brass coupler to the rocker shafts. There are
> > supposed to be some orings that seal the shafts to the coulpler.
>
> Jarrid,
> I have never seen any o-rings installed (not a bad idea to cut some
> grooves for some) and I just checked the Rootes part manual and didn't
> see any listed. The 1600s & 1725s that I rebuilt never seem to need them
> and oil pressure is way up there. One point to make on the rockers is to
> clean the oil holes, both the adjusting screw hole and the oil hole on
> top. They are pretty small in diameter and they do get plugged with
> carbon. Check the oil holes in the rocker shafts too. Make sure all that
> stuff is clean. Most rebuilders throw in some rings & bearings and never
> touch the rocker shaft assemblies at all.
>
> I had a customer's 1725 that had low oil pressure and I found that
> someone had installed the oil filter base gasket on backwards. Once a
> new gasket was installed correctly, oil pressure was back to normal.
>
> The Alpine engine is a simple design, but the rebuilder MUST look at all
> the small details.
> Jan
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