Thread: Help please!! Priming oil pump on Thor 4.6

Years ago with the 3.5 and 4.4 you could remove the dissy and use the shank off a screw driver in a drill to prim them up as the oil pump was driven off the dissy im unsure for a 4.6 im not familiar with them

Thanks Rangieman... sadly, with the Thor, the pump drive is concentric with, and driven, by the crankshaft, using the Woodruff key which also drives the timing chain sprocket......

cheers

A bit of info here.....
Priming Crank Driven Oil Pump

And more info here.. saying priming not required on later V8 pumps?????

http://landroverforums.com/forum/gen...7-4-0-a-47844/

Priming a crank driven pump is easy. Remove the oil pressure switch, pump about 1 litre of oil slowly into the switch hole, start and you're fine. A 1/4 BSP fitting will just nip up in the switch hole. Add a piece of fuel line etc and a couple of hose clamps done up or the hose may blow off with predictable results.

On a serpy 3.9 I did it this way:

I just had a look at a new timing cover.

If you remove the oil filter, look up into the filter mounting around the inner edge and you will see there is an elongated hole. That hole is a gallery that connects to the oil pump. You should be able to fill that with oil using a hand pumped oil can.

Alternatively, you can access the gallery by removing the lower oil cooler line.

The gallery in question is the lower one in the second pic.

I would have called you but I've lost your phone no.

Did that help, Hoges?