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Re: Not Again!!!!! MGB disaster

To: gardner@lwcomm.com
Subject: Re: Not Again!!!!! MGB disaster
From: mgb.roadster@juno.com (Larry A Hoy)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:38:50 -0600
Scott, your oil pressure should be 70-75 lbs.  If you had a new pump and
you are only getting 55 lbs pressure there is (was) a problem.  I would
suspect the crank was bad and damaged the bearings or the  bearings were
set too "loose".  I don't think that 55lbs works.

My car has about 75 lbs at speed (any speed) and 55 lbs pressure at idle.
 I have a stock oil pump and the standard relief spring.  12,000 miles on
rebuild.  Castrol 20-50, and any kind of oil filter as long as it isn' t
Fram.

Larry Hoy (MGB.Roadster@juno.com)
Denver, CO USA
1969 MGB Roadster
1987 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 23:29:04 +0000 "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
writes:

>Tyson,
>       Thanks for the kind words.  Mine was revving about 4250 when the

>problem started.  
>       One other thing I've been thinking.  With the heavy-duty oil
pump 
>and uprated relief spring, I was kind of expecting to have higher 
>than 55 psi on the highway.  I wonder if it's possible that something 
>was missed during the rebuild, and the high-flow pump was the only 
>thing that kept the pressure from being abysmal up till now.
>Scott
>

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