Old coals.
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 5:21 am
I refuse to believe that this has not been thrashed half to death in previous postings, but when I search back through there's only two pages and no mention of it. So forgive me for raking some very old coals here.
My car is an early type 1, 2B 81 11.
I've just stuck a pair of 88mm barrels with pistons onto it because the original 850cc didn't have enough torque, or at least did not have it where it mattered. It will have more grunt now.
While I have it up in the air, I thought I'd have a crack at removing the sump with the engine in situ, removing the front through bolt and lifting the engine at the front only to get sufficient clearance to slip the sump out.
This ambition has been thwarted because there are two of the sump retaining cap-head screws that I cannot even get an allen key into, let alone extract, with the engine in place.
So what have others done?
The two options that I see, assuming that the sump can actually be wriggled out just by lifting the front of the engine, are:
1. Next time I have the engine out, do the whole sump and filter thing, but don't re-fit those two screws and hope it does not leak, or;
2. Drill a couple of carefully calculated holes through the cross member so I can pass a long allen key through to reach these screws.
I have seen a photo somewhere of a similar early car with a de-mountable section that un-bolts out of the front cross member, but that is an engineering solution beyond me and in excess of the problem that I have.
What is the collective wisdom and experience here?
cheers,
JFerg
My car is an early type 1, 2B 81 11.
I've just stuck a pair of 88mm barrels with pistons onto it because the original 850cc didn't have enough torque, or at least did not have it where it mattered. It will have more grunt now.
While I have it up in the air, I thought I'd have a crack at removing the sump with the engine in situ, removing the front through bolt and lifting the engine at the front only to get sufficient clearance to slip the sump out.
This ambition has been thwarted because there are two of the sump retaining cap-head screws that I cannot even get an allen key into, let alone extract, with the engine in place.
So what have others done?
The two options that I see, assuming that the sump can actually be wriggled out just by lifting the front of the engine, are:
1. Next time I have the engine out, do the whole sump and filter thing, but don't re-fit those two screws and hope it does not leak, or;
2. Drill a couple of carefully calculated holes through the cross member so I can pass a long allen key through to reach these screws.
I have seen a photo somewhere of a similar early car with a de-mountable section that un-bolts out of the front cross member, but that is an engineering solution beyond me and in excess of the problem that I have.
What is the collective wisdom and experience here?
cheers,
JFerg