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Re: [Healeys] Oil pressure pipe

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Oil pressure pipe
From: Per Schoerner <per@schoerner.se>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:46:18 +0100
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Simon
A few drops of oil might come out from that pipe when you take it apart. 
The union has a very little hole that transmits the pressure to the 
pipe. There will be no problem at all with air in the pipe, in fact I 
think it was constructed with that in mind.

Per

Den 2015-11-10 kl. 22:58, skrev Simon Lachlan:
> The flexible pipe which comes out of the block on the RHS, under the
> carbs, and is the beginning of the pipework to the oil pressure
> gauge..............
>
> I think that mine is seeping a leetle tiny seep where it comes out of
> the block. Nothing that matters, but it won?t get any better.
>
> So, my guess is that there?s a dodgy washer in there somewhere. Now, if
> I take it all apart, air will get in to the pipe???
>
> Does that matter?
>
> If it does matter, what?s the cure?....Run the engine and loosen off the
> connection at the back of the gauge??
>
> Simon
>
>
>

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