I got it running! I got it running!
For 10 whole minutes at about 2000rpm- stopped the oil hemoragging at the
filter after about 5 attempts taking about 4 hours by using an extra washer
on the cannister thereby tightening it more.
Also did away with the cupped washer which was on it when I got it. Moss
didn't show it so I tried it without it. I also had put in the new rubber
o-ring. Actually the 4 or 5 hours was kinda a 'bonding' time with my car's
underneath, I might could have cut it to 3 hours if the car had been up on a
service station's rack and I could see what I was doing, instead I laid
under it tring to hit things, but, finally it worked although the first 1"
of the canister's bolt thread is stripped!
I just read Dave Bister's success with the oil filter's conversion, and
so I think I'll convert when I use up my oil filters that are on hand.
My trouble light's cord was hanging over the exhaust and of course,
it burned it in two, thereby blowing a house fuse, so when I tried to turn
on the box fan which was to cool the radiator -no fan. My attention darted
on something else, when I came back the radiator was spewing and I hit the
kill switch. My aftermarket tempreture gauge read almost 240 degrees- I
hope I didn't hurt it!
It held oil pressure steady at about 50-60 lbs (which I think was low
since my previous run-time of 4 minutes was a good 70 lbs.(I thank
GeraldV-'the doubter' for that cause he scraped my oil pump with glass and
performed other incatations). But I don't know why it was only 50 lbs.
when I saw the radiator spewing?
My driveway's an oil slick and a tornadoe is due here in GA at 2 am- I
wonder if that would get it up!
I trying to push the car into my garage, it's so hard now that the engine is
installed! Perhaps the wizard of Oz wants a TR3? Can Toto go too?
Thanks be to all on this list,
Paul Dorsey- I think a 63 TR4 engine for my TR3
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