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- From: bowmanj@csn.org (Jerry Bowman)
- Subject: Re: Oil pressure question?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.165720.3200@colorado.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec15.203102.24544@ncar.ucar.edu> <1992Dec15.154701.1@bronco.fnal.gov> <1992Dec17.141506.15531@nosc.mil>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:57:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.141506.15531@nosc.mil> koziarz@halibut.nosc.mil (Walter A. Koziarz) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec15.154701.1@bronco.fnal.gov> colombo@bronco.fnal.gov writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec15.203102.24544@ncar.ucar.edu>, cbh@windsurf.scd.ucar.edu (Cris Hannu) writes:
- >
- >>> I've got a question about the relationship of oil pressure to volume.
- >>> I've got an '84 Bronco II w/ 2.8L. I had the engine rebuilt (it has now
- >>> got about 10,000 miles on it), it was bored out and I had a new cam put in.
- >>> Anyway, the oil pressure is higher now (than originally) and it seems to
- >>> *increase* when the oil starts getting low. Is this normal, or do I have a
- >>> flaky sending unit? I would've thought it would *decrease*.
- >
- >>Oil pressure is not related to the volume, unless you run out. :-)
- >
- >Well, not *exactly* true... only to a first approximation... When volume is
- >reduced there is less oil available to dissipate the heat removed from the
- >power components ('bottom-end' - crank, rod bearings, etc...). The oil present
- >*will* become hotter (since there's less of it, it will dissipate heat to the
- >atmosphere less effectively (that's *why* a sump holds so much, anyway...)) and
- >will 'thin-out' and pressure most assuredly will drop. This effect only
- >becomes important under load... at idle there isn't much (comparatively) heat
- >to remove and dissipate from the power components.
- >
- >Walt K.
- >
- It sounds to me like you got a new oil pump with your engine rebuid, you should have , and the new pump put out more pressure than the old one.
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