Oil pressure
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Oil pressure
My oil pressure when cold is around 4 lbs, then continues to drop off to nothing as it warms, is this normal. Running 10w 30 oil as per engine builder specs.Engin e also seems to get noisy.
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Re: Oil pressure
The Model A engine has a high flow oil pump with very low pressure. Higher pressure reading at start up with cold oil and pressure dropping off after the oil warms up is perfectly normal. An oil gauge in a Model A can make some worry when the pressure goes away.
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Dave
Dave
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Re: Oil pressure
Thank you for responding, I was kind of hoping that was the case1crosscut wrote: ↑August 11th, 2019, 9:39 amThe Model A engine has a high flow oil pump with very low pressure. Higher pressure reading at start up with cold oil and pressure dropping off after the oil warms up is perfectly normal. An oil gauge in a Model A can make some worry when the pressure goes away.