jpindy3
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:08 PM |
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lucky boy
fitting my megajolt today had a cupple of problems but got it running on limp home mode,as it was running i saw there was no oil presure so i turnd it
off,i looked at a cupple of things to see why i have no oil presure,
at this point the engine has run about 1.5-2 mins,so i posted a post on here saying no oil presure, one reply was,
have you taken the dizzy out!!!!!!!!!
oh sh*t,yes i have,
what i have put in place was the botton bit of a dizzy i had cut up,
now as im still learning i say how casper002 on turbosport had cut his dizzy and getting part of the dizzy housing milled out to fit the baring in so
you can use the shaft and the cog,witch i now know runs the oil pump,the reason i didnt get that part milled was a somone i know said,
na mate just put a cap over it,he knew fall well what motor i had,
so leson learned dont lison to evry thing you hear,
since all this i put a dizzy in turned it over by hand then without the plugs in by the ign,then i pluged it all back and it runs sweet on edis4 at
10deg,
the oil presure went back to where it normaly is but in not ruling out it has cused some damidge,
what do you think??????
[Edited on 20/6/09 by jpindy3]
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omega0684
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:18 PM |
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fingers crossed it'll be fine, you'll soon find out when you take it out for a spin, if your engine blows up you'll know you made a
boo boo!
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blakep82
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:18 PM |
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for 2 minutes max, i'd say you might have just got away with it. bear in mind the oil that would have already been coating everything from
before. not ideal, but hopefully ok
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jpindy3
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:22 PM |
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what do you think though i might have damaged it,even if it runs now and has a good oil presure????
or will it take a little time to tell??
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omega0684
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:25 PM |
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without getting inside and having a look mate you'll never know.
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blakep82
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:27 PM |
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if it runs fine now, then good. how long would your engine have lived before, we'll never know, so if it blows in 5 years, whats to say if that
caused it?
like alex said, without taking it all apart and inspecting all the cylinder bores, piston rings, bearings etc no one will ever know
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jpindy3
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:30 PM |
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true true,
im just trying to fell a bit better about it
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mookaloid
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:31 PM |
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The main things to suffer if there is no oil pressure will be the camshaft then the big end and main bearings will suffer next.
If the cam hasn't got any noisier then you might have got away with it but you will know soon enough if you haven't.
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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omega0684
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:32 PM |
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if its running fine mate just count yourself a very lucky boy and plough onwards, don't dwell....
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mark chandler
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:39 PM |
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I remember years ago Dave Walker did an experiment for CCC running a car with no oil or no water, which one would be worse.
So he got an old austin 1300 (jelly mould), emptied it of oil and covered a couple of miles before it stopped.
Next he refilled with oil, ran for a bit then drained all the water, this time it only lasted 1/2 mile.
They expected the car to be trashed after this but when it had cooled down they refilled with water and he drove it home.
In conclusion they thought that losing water was worse than oil....
Anyway I would guess you will be okay, the car was not driven so no heavy loading on parts, I would cringe for a week then forget it.
Regards Mark
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iank
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| posted on 20/6/09 at 09:39 PM |
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Just glad you asked and didn't kill it thinking it was just a broken gauge. A lot of people wouldn't have bothered looking at the oil
pressure gauge while mucking around getting an edis working.
Pinto's are pretty tough and have fairly wide tolerances so with luck you'll have got away with it if you weren't trying for the
red-line. On the bright side you'd have killed a BEC running 2mins without pressure.
[Edited on 20/6/09 by iank]
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bimbleuk
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| posted on 21/6/09 at 05:27 AM |
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Assuming you coated the surfaces with some oil and didn't get it hot then the oil should have protected it for a minute or so. As mentioned its
the cams which will suffer as they are under more stress at idle, particularly the cam nose.
[Edited on 21-6-09 by bimbleuk]
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jpindy3
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| posted on 21/6/09 at 06:57 AM |
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ok well i did coat the cam in oil as i had the cam cover off as i was wanting to see if oil comes out of to spray bar,
thinking about it more it just makes me more to think i was going to do the right thing first,then i got told i didnt have to dy a good
mate,
and i dont think he would pick up the bill for a vulcan pinto,so i think il be getting it rebuilt soon
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