Reply To: Oil pressure

[Paul BarnardParticipant]

With some trepidation, I fitted an oil pressure gauge to my 1950 11BL last week. I bought it from Frantzens and I have had it for a while – the kit comes with gauge, nylon pipework, and the various olives and connections, including a replacement brass reducer for the back of the block, drilled to take a right angled 2 x male fitting. Imagine my surprise then when trial fitting the reducer, to find that while the size is correct, the thread pitch is wrong(They appear to have supplied a BSP thread). Annoying, but it just meant that I had to drill and tap the original steel plug that I had removed.  I had read that the pressure should be between 2 and 2.5 bar and was nervous when I started the engine but I needn’t have worried as the needle immediately went to sit at 2.5 bar and as it warmed up it gradually dropped back to 2 bar – JOY!

I realise that this is not strictly on Richard’s topic but I thought that it would be worth mentioning the problem with the kit as I assume that this is must be a universal kit and not necessarily specifically for TAs. Out of interest, has/does anyone used any of the ‘proprietary’ oil additives available?