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Re: [GMCnet] Engine Pre Lube Tank [message #325245 is a reply to message #325240] |
Sat, 21 October 2017 08:34 |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547 Registered: March 2007 Location: S.E. Michigan
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USAussie wrote on Sat, 21 October 2017 05:24G'day,
What do you guys think of this:
https://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/slp-t40
Regards,
Rob M.
Rob,
Get any kind of a pressure can and make your own for a lot less. And yes, spinning the pump with a drillmotor is cleaner and you can put a gauge in the gauge port and watch the lube oil pressure climb. Even better is if you are building an engine, prime it with the timing gear open (in our case that would be the cylinder head covers and the intake not yet in place) so you can see lube oil coming out of everywhere it needs to be.
Then there was the time a new, young, (so smart), builder went to use the prime tank. We still aren't completely sure how he did it, but he emptied the tank onto his tool box and some shop wall. The tool box dripped oil for a year, but the drawers worked great....
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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Re: [GMCnet] Engine Pre Lube Tank [message #325261 is a reply to message #325240] |
Sat, 21 October 2017 14:04 |
Chris Tyler
Messages: 458 Registered: September 2013 Location: Odessa FL
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On many modern engines you have no choice but to use something like this. [LS1 for example]
Also, there are some engines that either won't build pressure or perhaps lose psi to the lifter gallery without part of the distributor to block it
I cant speak to Olds engines specifically though.
An old stripped distinutor with the cam gear ground off works well.
If you tee it off the oil presssure sender, its proabaly faster than pulling and retiming the distributor.
I agree that you can make one for much less [much like the brake bleeder that was discussed]
76 Glenbrook
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Re: [GMCnet] Engine Pre Lube Tank [message #325263 is a reply to message #325261] |
Sat, 21 October 2017 14:24 |
Kosier
Messages: 834 Registered: February 2008
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AND, some of the new motors have the oil pump on the front of the crank and
use a distributorless ignition, hence no distributor.
Hot Rod Magazine had an article on building a primer for them sing a small
bucket, an old style oil pump driven by a drill, I believe,
and some fittings and hose. I'm glad I'm a dinosaur.
Gary Kosier
77PB w/500Cad
Newark, Ohio
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From: "Chris Tyler"
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Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Engine Pre Lube Tank
> On many modern engines you have no choice but to use something like this.
> [LS1 for example]
>
> Also, there are some engines that either won't build pressure or perhaps
> lose psi to the lifter gallery without part of the distributor to block it
> I cant speak to Olds engines specifically though.
> An old stripped distinutor with the cam gear ground off works well.
>
> If you tee it off the oil presssure system, its proabaly faster than
> pulling and tretiming the distributor.
>
> I agree that you can make one for much less [much like the brake bleeder
> that was discussed]
> --
> 76 Glenbrook
>
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