Pre-oiler question

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton

The places that a pre oiler will lubercate(bearings) will have oil on them any way. Just because it will pressurize the oil galley down to the MAIN bearings does not mean that it will get any oil to the rod bearings(only IFFFFFFFFF they happen to be perfectly aligned with the oil galley (in the crank) holes----------
They will NOT put any oil on the cylinder bores, wrist pins etc and in most cases will do little for the cam shaft or lifter bases--------

Agree with ya on this......

My race car sat at least 2 months without running and I decided to check/set the valves on the solid roller cam on a cold engine first,then hot.Pulled the valve covers,turned the engine over with a remote starter button and I had oil coming out of the push rods with only a few revolutions and less than 2 seconds of turning the engine over with the starter......I'm using a Melling High Performance oil pump,standard pressure/standard volume....and it does have a 8 quart road race pan/remote filter and oil cooler!!!!!!!!
I have an oil pressure warning light above the oil pressure gauge,it is set on 20 psi....until the pressure gets to 21 psi, the red light is ON...When starting the car after it has sat sometimes 2 to 3 months, I crank it over with the ignition OFF,when the oil pressure light goes off,I flip the ignition switch on and fire the engine.....I've never really timed it, but I'd bet it takes no more than 2 seconds of cranking to get past 20 psi......

David