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[alexcrosse]

Right, today was oil pump day. The threads in the old one were knackered where the sump went on, and it was also old, so wanted it replacing! first job was to strip it all down. Dropped the sump and realized that the engine needed to come out so i could actually get the sump off and get to the two bolts that hold on the oil pick up pipe.



Did so, and got the old pump out



Still hovering put the new pump in, nice n shiney



And got it all back together





Havnt had a chance to run it yet, mainly because i snapped a bit of the expansion tank off... so cant fill it up with water until i fix that tomorrow morning. Hope all is well!

Cheers,

Al

[jayare]

I'm glad you're finding all the bits I should replace before putting my engine in - it's going to be a right royal pain in the rear lifting the engine in and out on mine with a fixed metal front end!

JR

[alexcrosse]

anytime mate! LOL

[JordanRaisbeck]

looks great, lovely job :thumsup:

[Sam Walters]

Bad news ive been a lazy scrotum and not got on with contacting magnum. Will do sometime this week.
Good news is im going off the a-series. Murdered a gearbox coming away from the lights....DOH!

[alexcrosse]

forgot to mention what happened on the sunday, got all the last bits back together and it fired up after half a revolution, LOL.


nice tidy alternator


nice tidy engine bay.

Fixed the expansion tank by putting a little sleeve in and epoxying it, itll do for the time being until i find something a little bit tidier for it. Surely a tig welded aluminium one should be worth atleast 20bhp? lol.


got a few jobs done this weekend too (well, sunday). Got the sidelights working, just needed to spray out the pins on the caravan connector a bit, lots of swearing and hitting things working it out until dad walked past and just said 'widen those pins' lol. Hate it when that happens. Anyway they work a treat now. Also gave it a big old clean out so is nice inside and out, you cant polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter. Finally i fixed the leakey exhaust by actually putting a clamp on it, problem solved!

Because my MOT would expire on the 5th i decided to take it in for a test (i had a presentation in sheffield to do so had to get my dad to drive it) and SUCCESS! ITS PASSED!!! no advisories ofcourse =p

next jobs are to helicoil a knackered thread for the cam cover, and PTFE the oil pressure sender and thats it!

[roofless]

bring it over then, lets have a looksie

[alexcrosse]

maybe at the weekend

[Hannioli]

Hooray for the pass!

[alexcrosse]

Cheerssss

[The Matt]

maybe at the weekend

do it! I might be around!

[alexcrosse]

oh ey, whys that then!?

[Shifty]

maybe at the weekend

do it! I might be around!

Well if everyone coming, I want to join in!!!

[roofless]

I can feel a BBQ chez stickyfingers coming on

[alexcrosse]

maybe at the weekend

do it! I might be around!

Well if everyone coming, I want to join in!!!

bring the trailer =p lol