[AT] High oil pressure a bad thing?

[charlie hill]

Ron,  the 454 Chevy in my boat has the same sort of pump.  I can pull the 
coil wire and pump 100 PSI (cold) with the starter.  Running and warmed up 
it settles in at about 80 PSI.

Charlie
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Subject: Re: [AT] High oil pressure a bad thing?


> My 327 in my old Chevy had a high volume high pressure pump in it. It was
> alway at or over 80 PSI ran for more than 15 years that I had it with no
> problem.
> Ron
>
>
>> There's a letter to "Mr. Thinker" in the June issue of Green Magazine
>> about
>> a tractor with high oil pressure.   That caught my attention since my
>> Farmall M pressure gauge always reads high, and it was the same on the
>> Super
>> M I had several years ago.  The response from Mr. Thinker talks about how
>> to
>> adjust the oil pump relief valve to get the pressure back in the normal
>> range, but doesn't say anything about cleaning or checking or otherwise
>> servicing anything else in the engine.
>>
>> So what's the harm of high oil pressure?  If it's not a symptom of 
>> clogged
>> arteries, so to speak, or some other bad thing that ought to be fixed
>> before
>> it does real damage, what difference does it make if the gauge reads way
>> up
>> at the high side?
>>
>> Dean Vinson
>> Dayton, Ohio
>> www.vinsonfarm.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
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