roger7 Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 Have just discovered Blatchat and looked up previous items on oil pressure. Dismayed to discover that you all have too much of it! Always thought that 7-heads might be priapic. What about us wot have too little? 18 months ago, I bought my first 7 - a 1996 x-flow 1600 Sprint with 3,000 on the clock, including a season of Academy events. I’ve added 4,000 road miles during which the gauge has never showed more than about 3 (bar, presumably, but it could be yards for all I know ‘cos the gauge doesn’t say), dropping to 1or so at idle. Is this normal for a x-flow?? All this Blatchat about oil pressures of 5 and 6 and more, admittedly on different clockwork, is blowing my mind. The engine sounds fine, hot and cold, and there is no rattling or rumbling even on start-up after a week or so of inactivity - it doesn’t burn oil and there’s no smoke. Won’t somebody please tell me it’s just a gauge/sender problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Brother Posted November 3, 2001 Share Posted November 3, 2001 Roger, My Supersprint 1700 x-flow has similar oil pressures to the ones you mention. This seems to be fairly normal with the standard oil pump. In the Tony Weale book he states that x-flows in a standard to mild state of tune are fine with the standard oil pump. Steve cool.gifScream...if you want to go faster!!!id=limegreen> cool.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger7 Posted November 4, 2001 Author Share Posted November 4, 2001 Steve, Thanks for the very prompt reassurance. Oil pressure remains the same but my blood pressure is now back to normal. Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevefoster Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 Yep the pressures you say are normal for a standard Ford. It will even run fine on lower pressures...I can't remember them now but the Ford Capri Haynes manual I have for XF's quotes were really low! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevefoster Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 Edited by - stevefoster on 5 Nov 2001 14:09:26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caterhamnut Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 hey Roger - think your question has been answered, but just so you know, you can avoid all the "@$%&87 stuff in your posts by not writing in MS Word and pasting into this - apparently! Advice courtesy of Blatchat- bloke, cos our posts did the same. blew a head gasket today I think, so our oil pressure is slightly low aswell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 Blatchat blokequestion.gifquestion.gifquestion.gif Well really........smile.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted November 4, 2001 Share Posted November 4, 2001 Just a little helpful tip.. if you post, then read it and realise you've made a mistake, go to the right-hand icon which looks like a magnifying glass, click on it and edit your errors. Also, if you want to re-edit your post, insted of having.... edited by at such-and-such a time just edit that out before re-posting spesahllay at this time of nite wink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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