My oil tank is taking forever to drain. There seems to be a restriction. The oil drains in a 2mm wide stream out of a 5/8" hose.

I drained all the oil out, removed the oil line completely, added one quart of oil to the oil tank and caught the flow coming out. It took 15-20 seconds or more after dumping the quart into the tank until I saw oil coming out of the tank. The feed is a very thin stream about 2mm wide coming out of a 5/8" hose barb! It took nearly 15 minutes to drain the quart out of the tank directly at the tank 5/8" hose barb!

I also noticed that the 5/8" oil tank hose barb outlet is nearly at the same height as the hose barb inlet to the pressure pump. The feed in this 5/8" hose contains air. Sounds like a bad design to me.

I need to know if what I am seeing is normal (for the DS)? I remember draining the oil tank and it seemed faster.

I need to know what the rate of oil circulation (cc/min) is so I can determine if the oil feed is sufficient to keep up with the pressure pump. If it isn't, air bubles will get into the oiling system.

And one other thing, is there a device avaiable to prime the oiling system manually or with an electric pump prior to starting the motor? I don't like starting the motor without oil pressure. It takes up to a minute to reach full system pressure.

 

Did you check the oil filter screen on the Barb that srews into the tank? I found some debri stuck in mine...........

On priming...I just crank over the motor(with a plug out,& the kill sw off)till the red light goes out..[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

Jeff

 

scooby are you going to make it to aledo this time?just curious
i don't want to be the only one there with a power adder.