Reply To: Oil pressure

I’ve been using Castrol synthetic 5W-50 in my 11B for years and haven’t noticed any leakage at the front seal. A Roger Williams pump it has with 3-4 bar when hot at 100KMs and around 2 bar when hot at tickover.

My 11BL with it’s original engine ran really fine. I installed an oil pressure gauge from Jose Franssen. At speed the pressure would gradually decrease to almost nothing. Not good. I could have not installed a gauge and lived in blissful ignorance but no. So, now I’m installing an ID-19 block (I did the 11B back in 1988) with new main and rod bearings (a polished crank with original size bearing journals) and an RW pump so we will see what happens. I should have it in the car this week if all goes well.