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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:39:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] First Start Oil Pump Priming?
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Well Doug,

Don't keep us in suspense. What did you find?

Oil filter flows from the rim  in and out the center hole if I 
understand it right.

Finn

On 3/13/2024 6:16 AM, Doug Lomheim rv9flyer13b@gmail.com wrote:
> I have Tommy James engine from 2006ish, and it hasn’t been run since 
> then.  I took the front cover off and opened up the oil pump and 
> packed it vaseline after reading on on-line that could help to pull 
> oil from the pan after an engine has sat for a long time.  After 
> filling the pan, and cranking (without plugs) for 300 or revolutions, 
> it was still not drawing any oil into the pump, so I disconnected the 
> outflow oil hose, and gravity fed 1/2 a quart down the line which 
> in theory should reach the pump, and cranked another 100 revolutions 
> and still no oil pick up in pump.
>
> I next will try to put the a/c in a nose high attitude and see if that 
> will better fill the pick up tube in the pan, and crank some more; and 
> was wondering what other ideas have been tried in the past to draw oil 
> into the pump?
>
> Thanks for any ideas...
>
> Doug


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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Well Doug,</div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Don't keep us in suspense. What did you
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Oil filter flows from the rim  in and
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/13/2024 6:16 AM, Doug Lomheim
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rv9flyer13b@gmail.com">rv9flyer13b@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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      <font class="" size="5">I have Tommy James engine from 2006ish,
        and it hasn’t been run since then.  I took the front cover off
        and opened up the oil pump and packed it vaseline after reading
        on on-line that could help to pull oil from the pan after an
        engine has sat for a long time.  After filling the pan, and
        cranking (without plugs) for 300 or revolutions, it was still
        not drawing any oil into the pump, so I disconnected the outflow
        oil hose, and gravity fed 1/2 a quart down the line which
        in theory should reach the pump, and cranked another 100
        revolutions and still no oil pick up in pump.  </font>
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      <div class=""><font class="" size="5">I next will try to put the
          a/c in a nose high attitude and see if that will better fill
          the pick up tube in the pan, and crank some more; and
          was wondering what other ideas have been tried in the past to
          draw oil into the pump?  </font></div>
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      <div class=""><font class="" size="5">Thanks for any ideas...</font></div>
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      <div class=""><font class="" size="5">Doug   </font></div>
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