Hi,
I’m hoping I can perhaps benefit from the experience on this forum of any Rover V8 owners. The engine is the TVR produced Rover V8 4.3 which I believe starts life as a Rover 3.9 block.
Having had to leave the car unused for almost a year, and starting her up, I quickly established there was no oil in the system and quickly found that the oil appears to have drained back to the sump.
Conventional wisdom is to either pack the oil pump (two gear type) with vasoline, and to then turn on the starter until oil pressure is achieved or to remove the distributor and spin the pump with a drill. I’m not keen on the drill approach as I understand it’s not always successful. I know the vasoline approach is the common approach but I’m not sure I want to turn the engine even on starter only given there’s no oil at all in the system.
I understand that the later Rover V8’s had ports to pump oil into the system using a pressure filler at 2.5 bar. I can’t see that this older V8 has any ports but a few minutes on the web and I see that using the oil pressure switch hole may be a viable alternative.
Has anyone pressure filled a Rover V8 via the pressure switch (or any other access point) ?
Alternatively is there any other method to get oil to the lifters, cam & crank without turning the engine ?
Any help or pointers greatly received and appreciated.
Thanks !!
I’m hoping I can perhaps benefit from the experience on this forum of any Rover V8 owners. The engine is the TVR produced Rover V8 4.3 which I believe starts life as a Rover 3.9 block.
Having had to leave the car unused for almost a year, and starting her up, I quickly established there was no oil in the system and quickly found that the oil appears to have drained back to the sump.
Conventional wisdom is to either pack the oil pump (two gear type) with vasoline, and to then turn on the starter until oil pressure is achieved or to remove the distributor and spin the pump with a drill. I’m not keen on the drill approach as I understand it’s not always successful. I know the vasoline approach is the common approach but I’m not sure I want to turn the engine even on starter only given there’s no oil at all in the system.
I understand that the later Rover V8’s had ports to pump oil into the system using a pressure filler at 2.5 bar. I can’t see that this older V8 has any ports but a few minutes on the web and I see that using the oil pressure switch hole may be a viable alternative.
Has anyone pressure filled a Rover V8 via the pressure switch (or any other access point) ?
Alternatively is there any other method to get oil to the lifters, cam & crank without turning the engine ?
Any help or pointers greatly received and appreciated.
Thanks !!