I understand the general idea of pre-lubers, but am hazy about the actual details. Does it tap off your sump and feed in through a valve cover, or something like that?
(Hmm, now that I'm thinking about it - tapping it off the sump drain and valving it could serve as both a pre-lube pump _and_ an oil changer! That's what I call a compelling project...) Norm> I have two drains on my oil pan. One was originally drilled, tapped, and plugged for the drain. The other was just like it on the other side but no hole so I drilled and tapped one. That one feeds - through a ball valve - the suction side of the pump. The pump feeds the engine oil through a plugged hole I found in the oil filter adapter. I added a bypass pressure relief valve across the pump to limit the pressure. The idea is that in case of a main engine lube oil pump failure I could turn on the pre-start lube oil pump, the GearPuppy, and get into port on that. The relief valve would allow the pump to operate at a load that would keep the circuit breaker from tripping. I don't understand that bit about "changing oil". It's a Detroit. It changes its own oil. I just add a gallon every 24 hours of operation and change the filter once a year. I'm thinking... if you drive a relay off that two-terminal oil pressure switch you mentioned, you could use it to cut the power to the Gear Puppy. Oil pressure comes up, GP goes off; no chance of blowing the pump. Norm > Yes, but I wanted to use it as an emergency oil pump. The auto-resetting breaker works fine. If I happen to see you before you get to it, I've got a 30A relay for you. I carry a stack of the little suckers. :) Norm > Thanks for the offer but I have a sackfull too. I got a message from the Voice Annunciator people. The won't take back the sack of 6 USB cables so if you buy any don't let them talk you into buying the cables too. "I double checked with my product manager on your request for the USB cable return. The factory has marketed the USB cables to be sold with the indicators so that' s why it was quoted that you'll need both. We also quoted this NC/NR so I'm unable to take a return." Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL 30 23.8N 081 25.7W _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
