Oil Pressure Line

[awolff280sl]

After replacing the oil pressure line with a new line, is it necessary to somehow get the air out of the line and get a column of oil into it? In other words, do you have to bleed the air out of the line somehow before hooking it back up to the center instrument box?

Andy
Sarasota, FL

[merrill]

Andy
I asked gernold this very question and he said no.

when I re-installed my instrument cluster I just hooked everything up and started the car.

you could, if you wanted to, bleed the system, but why chance the mess.

matt

Matt
Austin Tx
66 230 sl - "white"
78 300 D - Blue
98 C230

[mbzse]

quote:Originally posted by AWOLFF280SL

After replacing the oil pressure line with a new line, is it necessary to somehow get the air out of the line and get a column of oil into it? In other words, do you have to bleed the air out of the line somehow before hooking it back up to the center instrument box?

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Of course you should do this, anytime you have the central cluster out.     .Both in order to bleed out any air, but also to displace the old, stale oil from the line.

Put a small cup to catch the oil, and crank the engine w/o starting until fresh oil comes out. That means, disconnect the ignition before cranking.


/Hans in Sweden

[awolff280sl]

What's the easiest way to disconnect the ignition? Pull the center cable out of the distributor cap?

Andy
Sarasota, FL

[France]

Hi Andy,

So yours must not have been the ivory car I saw at Hoyt's when I picked up Carling with her new soft top?  They used it as a model to reassemble her bits...

Trice
1968 280SL US, signal red/bl leather, auto, kinder seat
Sarasota FL; Alsace France; Switzerland
Think of your Pagoda as a woman with a past...stable now including a 92 911 Carrera 2 Tiptronic

[glennard]

I think it is a Bourdon tube(the French rangled their way in).  It responds to a gas and/or a fluid equally-I think.

[abe280SL]

IMO I think its easier to disconnect from the coil than the distributor cap....but either one will do.
abe

abe
1968 280SL Auto
Signal Red w Beige Int

[awolff280sl]

Trice,
My car is ivory, but I'm the only one playing with its bits... in the privacy of my garage.

Andy
Sarasota, FL

[Benz Dr.]

Plull the wire from the coil. Ask me how I know this besides zapping myself and starting a fire once......

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