Return-Path: Received: from [206.46.252.40] (HELO vms040pub.verizon.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c3) with ESMTP id 829691 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:41:04 -0500 Received: from verizon.net ([71.98.191.252]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IE600LRU3CE7E10@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:41:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:40:53 -0500 From: Finn Lassen Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Oil Flow In-reply-to: To: Rotary motors in aircraft Message-id: <424AAC65.6020802@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=------------060602040302010300040109 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax; PROMO) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060602040302010300040109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's not clear from what I've read in this thread so far, but I thought I'd better mention that oil filters are one-way valves. Something I did not know. Make sure you haven't reversed in- and outputs to the filter. Finn > Ready to try a first start of the engine if oil pressure could be > counted on to come up. > > Perplexed as to why I get oil pressure sometimes and not every > time I spin the engine. > > Wendell (with oil all over the place) > > > > > > --------------060602040302010300040109 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It's not clear from what I've read in this thread so far, but I thought I'd better mention that oil filters are one-way valves. Something I did not know. Make sure you haven't reversed in- and outputs to the filter.

Finn

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Ready to try a first start of the engine if oil pressure could be counted on to come up.

Perplexed as to why I get oil pressure sometimes and not every time I spin the engine.

Wendell (with oil all over the place)

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