\u201cHow high should it go,\u201d asked I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOh, about 50,\u201d says he.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He started the engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWait, wait,\u201d I yelled. \u201cIt went to 2.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c2? No really? 2?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYep.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOk, let\u2019s try this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He took the gauge off and handed me a paper towel to catch the oil when it spurted from the hose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGet ready,\u201d says he. \u201cThe oil will spurt out and make a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He started the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And oil did come out, but more like a dripping nose if you have a bad cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So that\u2019s that, no trip to NY this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Progress over the winter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Over the winter, we sorted out the brake<\/a>s, added heater fan<\/a>, ordered new coil springs for the front<\/a> and looked for a clear problem with the oil pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In May we had the TEAE <\/a>BASH (Bring A Sunbeam Here) in our TajMaGarage. About 20+ guys were here for a short gimmick rallye, some food, car talk, and tech sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One was to try to diagnose the oil problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n There were ideas, testing, greasy hands and frayed minds in trying to diagnose the problem. The outcome? Unable to be determined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the end, it was decided that the engine was just too tired to be rebuilt. Besides, we had a rebuilt Sunbeam Alpine 1725 engine <\/a>from a long-abandoned project sitting on a stand in the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PLUS, also laying around was a perfectly good overdrive unit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n No more granny low gear for me! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Next: “Just” dropping in that Alpine engine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, we didn\u2019t make it to the TEAE United, on Long Island, NY in the car We did get new tires from Pep Boys of all places! But the oil pressure was bothersome. Tiger Tom Ehrhart came over and put some fancy gauges on the oil gallery to measure it. The car was in a … Continue reading “Oil Pressure Story”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kerchmcconlogue.com\/1960-hillman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/joe-and-dave-young-650x503.jpg\")