Well, it makes noise now:

https://youtu.be/sGMTIoeVAqw

The new starter seems to work well. Still no oil pressure indicated on the gauge, so I'll fit the new gauge and see what I get. It sounds like it has at least some oil pressure though.

The Echlin coil was dead, so I replaced it with a Bosch coil from a random 240, cleaned the points and had spark again. I haven't touched the carby yet, and I might not need to as it seems to run pretty well.

The alternator doesn't seem to be charging, so I'll have to look into that next.

Sounds pretty sweet, why am I not surprised that its straight piped haha

The SuperTrapp is sort of a muffler! Plus it's a spark arrestor and rain cap in one.

14 days later

So a while back I fitted a new oil pressure line, and the gauge still didn't move off zero. I replaced the gauge, same result. The oil line appeared to be perfectly clean on the gauge end, so I removed it to find this on the banjo end:

Poked a hole in that, cleaned out with brake cleaner, confirmed brake cleaner flows from one end to the other. Refitted and still no reading.

Removed the bolt and found nothing similar in my oil pressure test kit, so cranked the engine over with the bolt still removed. Oil does flow, but how much should I expect?

Well, it's not the flow that matters, only the pressure :| do you have a pressure test gauge you can hook up?

Hmm my only experience with seeing how much oil comes out was when we missed putting the pressure switch back in the freshly rebuilt engine for @PaddlerEd.

From what I recall in that case visually quite a lot of oil came out with only a few rotations of the engine.

Perhaps a simple test in the absence of another known working guage would be to reattach the line with the banjo only lightly tightened, start the engine and crack the banjo undone slightly. Should he pretty evident if there is any real pressure there. Bit of a mess to clean up if there is!

    I forgot about that! Yes, the van left its mark at Casa del tentacle.

    Thread might a Whitworth which is why finding things for it is fun, or is it UNF/UNC?

    I do have a test gauge but no suitable fitting in it, and I haven't had any luck finding out what thread it is.

    I get the feeling I'll have to rebuild the engine. Really didn't want to have to do that.

      VolvoHordz

      Hmm my only experience with seeing how much oil comes out was when we missed putting the pressure switch back in the freshly rebuilt engine for @PaddlerEd.

      From what I recall in that case visually quite a lot of oil came out with only a few rotations of the engine.

      Perhaps a simple test in the absence of another known working guage would be to reattach the line with the banjo only lightly tightened, start the engine and crack the banjo undone slightly. Should he pretty evident if there is any real pressure there. Bit of a mess to clean up if there is!

      You don't remember when I did the exact same thing on the 244?

        Dauntless

        I do have a test gauge but no suitable fitting in it, and I haven't had any luck finding out what thread it is.

        I get the feeling I'll have to rebuild the engine. Really didn't want to have to do that.

        Time to spend the $5 on a thread pitch gauge?

        Ever had the valve cover off to see how sludgy the engine is inside? When we did the rear main seal on my perents tea20 we found the sump was really badly sludged up.

        If it is sludged up you might get away with removing the valve cover and the sump and cleaning it up from the top and bottom.

          I do have a thread pitch gauge, somewhere. It doesn't match up with anything on the thread file I have, it's quite a coarse thread.

          The engine has maybe an hour of run time since the valve clearances were set 12ish years ago, I don't remember it being sludgy. I'd like to run it with the valve cover off to see if any oil is getting up there, but I'll have to rig up some sort of temporary fuel system to do that and I really need to tidy up the shed before I pull this thing apart too much.

            Re the thread, bloke I work with sometimes, a bush mechanic/fitter who learner to fix things in rural Papua New Guinea as parents were missionaries reckons it's unf or gas thread but needs the diameter to tell. If you have picture I'll send it to him..It's always good to work with him , he has great stories.

            Dauntless

            I do have a thread pitch gauge, somewhere. It doesn't match up with anything on the thread file I have, it's quite a coarse thread.

            The engine has maybe an hour of run time since the valve clearances were set 12ish years ago, I don't remember it being sludgy. I'd like to run it with the valve cover off to see if any oil is getting up there, but I'll have to rig up some sort of temporary fuel system to do that and I really need to tidy up the shed before I pull this thing apart too much.

            I'd just drop the pan and clean the eff out of everything

            Also, drain the oil and fill it with atf type F and run it for a bit to just clean everything

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              This is the banjo bolt.

              The sump isn't sludged up. The oil pickup screen bolts into the side of the sump, and I removed it for inspection when I drained the old oil.

              BSP plumbing fitting? (Or whatever its called) might be worth a try.

              BSPP thread pitch is smaller than that I think. Could be wrong though, what's the thread OD?

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              My esteemed mate says it's a badly corroded NPT (National Pipe Thread)

              According to my measurements it seems to be 3/8 16TPI BSW. I could be wrong.

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