
Originally Posted by
AMPS
Regular oil changes were critical, remember how the idler gear bearings would chop out their alloy housing, then the fragments would destroy the oil pump and the main and rod bearings would die from lack of oil pressure?
Them were the days.
Lou
But they still took a hell of a lot of abuse,and many would go years without an oil change,they blew head gaskets and burnt valves so much that a BMC was a permanent fixture in most workshops for 40yrs,a creamy soup in the trans,just change the oil and out it goes again.Manys the time I've pulled the magnetic drain plug out and found a final drive gear tooth on the end.Pulling a BMC power unit out with a chain block from the roof beams and splitting it on the floor was done every couple of months,these days most mechanics wouldn't know how it's done.
You had to pull the engine to do a clutch on the 1800 landcrab,but with that power unit in a Princess you could do it inplace.Anyway - a straight 30 weight oil from 1962 was up to the job.
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