oil pump priming

roule said:

Hi,
I don't succeed to prime my pump with a drill, even with the 2 pipes oil cooler full of oil . I checked the pump before, it was in the tolerance...i did not put jelley in the pump. i think to put 2 mre oil liters in the engine to help priming. does it make sense ?

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Rangieman123 said:

Your pump could be full of air. You could try unscrewing the oil pressure sender and drilling slowly on the pump.

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discool said:

The oil filter should now be full of oil, but if no it up with with as much oil as you can without spilling it when refitting the filter.
But then 3.9 pump is supposed to be self priming, Ive never had any issues in the 23 years I’ve been doing oil changes when filling both the sump and filter before starting the engine.

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roule said:

I already fill the filter before...

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discool said:

Ok, as I said the genuine LR 3.9 oil pump was described as self priming, with one of my oil changes I forgot to fill the filter before fitting, so on starting the dash illumination didn’t extinguish instantly, as it did normally, but remained for around 20 seconds or so.

My question is how do we know there is a issue, in the old 3.5 V8 days priming was mentioned a couple of times the procedure, but that was from the LR magazines of of the time and before internet.

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roule said:

I'm ashamed...i use a 13mm socket instead a 12 mm (i was sure it was a 12mm...), so now the drill really crank the pump...and full of oil squirts from one of the 2 cooler pipe, probably the excess of oil (4 liters in excess) . Tomorrow i will get the good oil level and try to prime the pump...

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discool said:

My question is how do we know there is a issue, in the old 3.5 V8 days priming was mentioned a couple of times the procedure, but that was from the LR magazines of of the time and before internet.

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