D24TIC project: Oil pressure Priming 'button'

[RoyMacDonald]

Originally Posted by DLM48

i suspect this is a push button that kills the glow plug circuit and i assume starts an electric pump to build up the oil pressure BEFORE you start the engine - planning on doing something very similar myself a Sureflow 45 PSI pump uses about 4 amps so is hardly going to seriously discharge the battery and this is NOT the only way to do this - google engine pre lubers or read my post with links on the oil filter thread

Try this site for some brilliant info on pre-lubers. There's a brilliant one that only has one moving part and gives instant oil pressure as soon as you turn on the ignition, and one that is programable to circulate oil for 30 sec or so before you start the engine. Also you can programe it to circulate oil for a timed interval after you stop thus giving protection to the turbo when it's at it's most vunerable. i.e. very hot with out any oil to protect it.

http://www.carbibles.com/engineoil_bible.html

Roy

P.S. It's a long way down the page.

[DLM48]

great post and very interesting site - i guess i should post these links again


http://prelube.com/powrlube500.html
http://www.engineprelube.com
http://www.king-cart.com/cgi-bin/car...ct_match=exact
http://www.masterlube.net/shop/default.asp