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Chris
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Hi all, just found this group and it looks great. The location where google
finds the faq didn't seem to be responding, but I don't think this will be
in it anyway, even though it feels like kind of a dumb question.
I have a Lightweight with a Rangy V8 in it (sacrilege, some might say, but I
didn't do it). Anyway, it has a remote oil filter kit to stop the filter
being demolished by the front diff, and the pump cover part of this kit
seems to be a bit iffy. So my first key question is
should the oil pressure light switch and gauge sender be before or after the
oil filter? I'd have thought it should be after and a few sites about
mechanics in general have implied that too. It also looks like it's after on
new and rather different 4litre+ RR V8s. But on my pump cover it's before
the filter. Unfortunately I don't have a proper Rover cover and filter
housing to look at.
Also, just to double check- can anyone think of a good reason to have a
small hole (perhaps 1.5mm) between the filter send and return galleries? I'd
think it's too small to be useful for anything but just big enough to bleed
off some of what little oil pressure there is at idle, and judging by the
uncleaned burr on the back end I suspect it's a pilot hole that was drilled
too deep. At GBP100 I'm not desperate to replace the cover, so I've put a
self tapping screw in with thread lock to seal it up, If anyone thinks the
hole should be there please let me know before I put it all back together!
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give
Chris
finds the faq didn't seem to be responding, but I don't think this will be
in it anyway, even though it feels like kind of a dumb question.
I have a Lightweight with a Rangy V8 in it (sacrilege, some might say, but I
didn't do it). Anyway, it has a remote oil filter kit to stop the filter
being demolished by the front diff, and the pump cover part of this kit
seems to be a bit iffy. So my first key question is
should the oil pressure light switch and gauge sender be before or after the
oil filter? I'd have thought it should be after and a few sites about
mechanics in general have implied that too. It also looks like it's after on
new and rather different 4litre+ RR V8s. But on my pump cover it's before
the filter. Unfortunately I don't have a proper Rover cover and filter
housing to look at.
Also, just to double check- can anyone think of a good reason to have a
small hole (perhaps 1.5mm) between the filter send and return galleries? I'd
think it's too small to be useful for anything but just big enough to bleed
off some of what little oil pressure there is at idle, and judging by the
uncleaned burr on the back end I suspect it's a pilot hole that was drilled
too deep. At GBP100 I'm not desperate to replace the cover, so I've put a
self tapping screw in with thread lock to seal it up, If anyone thinks the
hole should be there please let me know before I put it all back together!
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give
Chris
