Ahoy All, > The pump feeds the engine oil through > a plugged hole I found in the oil filter adapter.
Ah - got it. Thanks! I was actually thinking of something that would also wet down the rockers and the push rods (Perkins engines are notoriously slow at getting oil up to the head, especially after they've been sitting awhile), so anything I install would also need a small hose teed off to the valve cover. Norm - For the pre-start lube oil feed on my genset I purchased a device called a "pancake adapter" that goes between the engine and the oil filter. It is designed to add an oil cooler to a over-the-road vehicle such as a pickup truck that you want to use to tow a trailer in the mountains. It has a little thermostrip that opens a passage to a oil cooler when the temp goes up. I modified it to just have a place to feed the output of the Gear Puppy into the oil galleries. I imagine these "pancake adapters" could be had for most any engine or a local machine shop could make one. The rocker arms on my engines are lubricated via oil passages which would have oil pressure fed to them via the pre-start lube oil pump. I imagine most engines work this way. Ben > My thought was, since I'd be pulling the oil out of the sump anyway, why not also valve it off to a piece of hose with a petcock? Warm it up, add a little diesel to thin it and to clean out the crud, stick the hose into a milk jug, and fire up the Gear Puppy. *Much* better than crawling around in the bilge, wrestling with drain pans, and dripping black oil everywhere. Norm > Yes, that would be a good idea to add a drain valve to the pre-start lube oil pressure pump system. The concept of "crud" in the lube oil system of an engine may be out of place. When I removed my main engine oil pan to make the oil suction point for the pre-start lube oil pump suction I was surprised to find the inside of the pan was spotless - no crud or residue whatsoever. When I pulled the heads to get a valve job the tops of the heads (where the valve gear is) was likewise spotless. I was on a ship one time where the Chief Engineer (whether he knew it or not) was running what appeared to be a Ponzi scheme selling shares of a company that made and sold pump/filter machines to flush out the oil circuits of car and truck engines. I have never heard of this being done and have read that modern high detergent lube oils and filters keep the engine clean. 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
