Jim -
Did you try the solutions I sent to you on my last email? If your oil
cooler lines are swapped backwards and you have an oil filter with a
anti-drain valve in it, you will get no oil pressure. Take the oil
filter off and see if oil squirts out the oil filter hole... if it
does... it means your oil cooler hoses are mounted up backwards.
Regards,
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
On 5/24/05, Jwhlyadv@aol.com <Jwhlyadv@aol.com> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I removed the plugs, pre-filled a
> new oil filter, triple checked the oil level and cranked the engine, no
> improvement.
>
> Removed the oil line to the gauge and the fitting on the block. Improvised
> with what I had on hand and took a small funnel and attached it to some vacuum
> hose scavenged off a 1970's era Parnelli Jones Vacuum gauge and poured oil in.
> Reconnected everything. No Improvement.
>
> Tonight I went out and bought a pump type oil can and will retry priming the
> pump again. Perhaps my dribbling of oil through a vacuum hose was
>insufficient.
>
> The only thing I might have screwed up on is the oil filter itself. I changed
> the oil in the BJ8, the BN4 and the Porsche all at the same time in an
> assembly line fashion.
>
> I assumed the oil filters were the same on the BJ8 and BN4. Both are spin on
> adapters. The BN4 has an oil cooler fitted. Does this make a difference? The
> oil cooler uses a boss under the spin on oil filter adapter, steel braided
> lines to the cooler, not the same one shown in the Moss catalog. The cooler
> probably came from Nock about ten years ago. Does anyone else have this oil
>cooler?
> I have an email in to David.
>
> I built the car from boxes of parts with less hassle than this oil change is
> costing me.....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Werner
> Louisville, KY
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