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Hopefully you haven't repeated my
stupid mistake. Oil filter has a built-in one-way valve membrane.
On my old RV-3 oil wouldn't flow until that membrane was broken
(until I reversed the hoses to the oil filter base).
Finn
I have Tommy James engine from 2006ish,
and it hasn’t been run since then. I took the front cover off
and opened up the oil pump and packed it vaseline after reading
on on-line that could help to pull oil from the pan after an
engine has sat for a long time. After filling the pan, and
cranking (without plugs) for 300 or revolutions, it was still
not drawing any oil into the pump, so I disconnected the outflow
oil hose, and gravity fed 1/2 a quart down the line which
in theory should reach the pump, and cranked another 100
revolutions and still no oil pick up in pump.
I next will try to put the
a/c in a nose high attitude and see if that will better fill
the pick up tube in the pan, and crank some more; and
was wondering what other ideas have been tried in the past to
draw oil into the pump?
Thanks for any ideas...
Doug
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