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To: hoosier.utah.edu!british-cars@hoosier.cs.utah.edu
Subject: oil pressure
From: gerry@probe.att.com
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:00:15 US/
Stories on low oil pressure :

About 3 years ago the oil pressure was starting to get very 
low on my Scimitar, (it had slowly degraded over the previous 3 years)

The cold psi was about 60, warm about 30 and idle was just above 10 on the
guage. All i did to the engine was change the crankshaft bearings,
ie main and rod, now the cold ps1 is 80, warm is 70 and idle is
about 55. Even if I set the idle way low (about 500 rpm), the oil
press will not drop beloe 55 psi.

When i removed the old shells, all had the copper showing through.


Gerry


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