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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:45:43 -0500
From: Ernest Christley <echristley@att.net>
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Subject: Listening to Lynn
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I've been listening to you, Lynn.

Last night, I poured a gallon of oil down the throat of my project.
Disconnected the hose to the oil cooler right before it headed into the
firewall, and set it to drain into a coffee can.  Spun the starter till
oil started globbing into the can. (Hoorah!!)

I was concerned that there were some white globs in the oil that looked
a lot like clear silicone sealant.  Where did that come from?  I
filtered the oil through a scrap of cloth to get at the globs.  Turns
out it was the grease that I had packed the oil pump with.  Now where
would I have gotten the idea to do that?

I put the oil line back together, and disconnected the hose at the
fitting coming back through the firewall from the cooler.  Spun the
engine till the fitting spit at me, then torqued the hose back into
place.  The next step is to fill the filters and disconnect the hose as
it heads back into the engine.  Gotta go buy some more oil before that
happens, though.

The next step is to verify that the first rotor is getting the spark at
the right time, both with the MegaSquirt online and off.  Then the only
step left is to add fuel.  I'll probably do that first with a spray
bottle into the intake, and then move on to verify the proper operation
of the injectors.