Rich,
If it's idling at 40 lbs warm, I wouldn't worry about it.
What is the cold start-up pressure?
Gerard
At 8:12 AM -0800 3/14/00, Rich Hill wrote:
>One of the things I want to replace on the 948 is the oil pressure relief
>spring and plunger -- not that I expect it to do much good, but it's so easy
>to do it's worth trying (my warm oil pressure is down around 40 psi, so
>something will probably need to be done soon).
>
>Anyway, at Minimania on Saturday I picked up a spring and ball which they
>seem to prefer to the plunger. Does anyone have any experiences or
>recommendations with regards to the ball vs. bullet shaped plunger?
>Apparently the ball is less prone to hanging up, but are there any
>advantages of the plunger? Is there any reason Austin used the plunger
>instead of a ball in the first place?
>
>Thanks,
>Rich Hill
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