Wow, thank you, one and all. You've given me a lot of food for thought. I am going to print this thread and do some looking out in the garage tonight.
The pressure gauge on the A'sump seems to read the same--about 50 psi--regardless of what I do. As I mentioned initially, I did bleed it down to around 7 psi, and it initially accepted the charge of
oil. I know I have the valve pointed the right way, as I had read an earlier post about your "adventure", Hal, and took it to heart. The solenoid is wired such that it is only on with the switch. Regardless, I use a battery cutoff when I'm not driving the car, and I've only put about 10 miles on it since I hooked up the A'sump, so I'd be surprised to find that the solenoid had gone bad from that. Not to say there's not some other problem with it. I will recheck all of the wiring tonight and look around with a test light to see if there is some electrical fault (highly likely since Yours Truly did the wiring
).
Thanks again for the replies, photos, schematic, etc. This is the forum at its best.
Bob