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Old 07-08-2011, 08:43 AM
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removing oil pressure regulator ball or cone

OK magicians, miracle workers and diviners: I'm trying to take out my oil pressure regulating cone/ball (don't know which one yet) and have succeeded in removing the spring, but not the pointy/round object.

The Moyer manual shows a picture of the assembly removed and nicely posed for a photograph but I'll be darned if I can get it all out. Any tips?

On my boat, this is a blind left-handed reach down the side of the motor from above. I can get a small screw driver in the bolt hole but how can I scoop or grab the cone/ball? Are we talking magnets here? Chewing gum? Divine intervention?

I'm assuming I've got the ball valve as inward adjustments of the valve resulted in increasing starting oil pressure until a point where pressure decreased with more inward adjusting. Sounds exactly like the note Don posted about the spring bending to the side eventually and removing pressure from the ball at higher adjustments...
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