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Re: [oletrucks] Oil pump priming

To: <Advdesign1@aol.com>, <antonio@innercite.com>, <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Oil pump priming
From: "Eric and Linda St.Phillips" <lstphil1@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 18:49:32 -0400
Bob,
Does it matter if you spin the pump CW or CCW?
Eric St.Phillips
1959 GMC 100
Fairport, NY

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From: Advdesign1@aol.com <Advdesign1@aol.com>
To: antonio@innercite.com <antonio@innercite.com>; oletrucks@autox.team.net
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Date: Thursday, October 21, 1999 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Oil pump priming


>
><<
> I was priming the Oil Pump in a '57 235 engine by removing the
> distributor and inserting a flat blade screwdriver, I noticed that the
> pump does not give any resistance, >>
>
>You need a long screwdriver bit chucked into an electric drill.  It will
take
>about 500 rpm to register pressure on your gauge.  Remove valve cover to
>confirm oil to the rocker arms.  When oil drips out of there it has
>circulated everywhere else.  You can see one or two rockers thru the oil
fill
>hole if you don't wnat to pull valve cover.  You will hear drill slow down
>when it starts pumping oil.
>
>Bob ADler
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959


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