eddymcclements
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 10:23 AM |
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Ooops!
Went for a long drive yesterday - A65 from Kirkby Lonsdale to Crooklands, turned right and headed for Kendal, picked up the back road through
Oxenholme and onto the A684 to Sedbergh. Through the town and kept on the A684 up through Garsdale and on to Hawes. Paused briefly and headed back
along the B6255 through Widdale and past Ribblehead, down into Ingleton and along the A65 back to the starting point.
Trouble is, some of these roads are like a roller-coaster...see below.
 
Ooops
I seem to have grazed a tiny hole in the sump - enough for a steady drip, drip, drip. I only realised an hour after arriving home so I quickly
drained the remaining oil (still 3 litres left) and cleaned the drive before SWMBO got home. Time to implement that dry-sump plan that's been
brewing in my mind....got a d/s tank and Pinto oil pump on the way from eBay.
Eddy
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graememk
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 10:31 AM |
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shouldnt you drain the remaining 3lts of oil into a container, looks like theres 2 lts on the driveway
and us blokes dont understand why we get put on mother inlaw programs :
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welderman
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 10:39 AM |
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Sorry to hear of your loss.
Where about are you located, you must have got your number plate from Preston i guess.
I'm just outside Chorley, and boy was it cold yesterday.
Thank's, Joe 
I don't stalk people
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/23/viewthread.php?tid=172301
Back on with the Fisher Fury R1
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Peteff
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 11:13 AM |
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That's a feeble excuse for a dry sump.
Drain the oil out an mig it.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Hellfire
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 11:34 AM |
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I'm surprised you grounded it with the front of the car THAT high! How did you steer?
No need for dry sump - you money squaderer you! As Pete says - get it welded up man! You know SWMBO would approve... 
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DarrenW
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 11:51 AM |
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When i welded my sump up i used 3mm steel for bottom plate and angled it up at the front. This might be an idea to strengthen it.
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eddymcclements
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 11:54 AM |
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I did have a boxed 'n' baffled shortened sump fitted but was getting surge problems when I nailed the beeatch, so I fitted a stock sump
instead. This was the first trip out with the stock sump, so it's lasted...ohh...50 miles? For now I'm going to take it off and mig it and
add some 3mm steel skids to the bttom, but in the longer term I need to do something about clearance - the 65mm it has at the moment obviously
isn't enough. Good thing it was only a graze - what if there'd been a cat's eye as well....might have ripped it right off!
Megabusa drysump tank - 40 quid eBay
Pinto oil pump - 99p eBay (plus postage)
New housing - lump of ally, machined to fit Pinto gears
Hoses - hydraulic supplier
Belt and pulley - HTD / Gates stockist
I reckon I can do it all for 75-80 quid. Cheaper than a new set of main bearings or a crank re-grind.
welderman - I'm right at the top end of Lancashire. Cumbria is about a mile away, and Yorkshire about 5.
Cheers,
Eddy
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Agriv8
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 12:43 PM |
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Eddy,
Your a brave man I live Just tother side of Skipdale ( skipton to anyone who does not watch emerdale ) we had rain, snow hail, sun ( and that was
just in the 2 hours I was cheering the missus on playing football.
Can imaginge it was brisk up at hawes.
Regards
Agriv8
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
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eddymcclements
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 01:34 PM |
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Aye, it's always a few degrees colder once you passed through the border crossing into Yorkshire. I was glad to get back to the swaying palm
trees and warm tropical breeze of Lancashire.
Had a big Jap 4x4 sports saloon (Skyline?) up my chuff all the way up from Garsdale - 300+bhp and 4-wheel drive versus 125bhp and RWD on slippy A539s.
Still got away from him in places.
Eddy
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Potster
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 01:35 PM |
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Agriv8 where about are you in Skipdale? I live on the outskirts but haven't seen your car around.
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Oldpc
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 07:26 PM |
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Hi Eddy,
this is my first post so Hi to everyone else too.
Sorry to hijack your post but I've been collecting bits to start my build and would like to identify my chassis. The wishbones look exactly the
same as yours so could you tell me what make your car is, hope this makes sense, regards Paul.
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Pezza
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 08:04 PM |
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my old pre-lit westy had a handy little thing fitted.
A couple of flat steel strips (3mm thick) heading front to rear from a front crossmember that ran just under the sump. meant if you cliped a high
speed bump or something it hit the bars rather than the sump itself.
Can't have been more than kilo or two of steel all told, only lost a couple of mm of clearance and i'm pretty sure it saved my sump once
when I hit a speed bump I had forgotten about at speed.
Ben
You couldn't pwn your way out of a wet paper bag, with "PWN ME!!" written on it, from the "pwned take-away" which originally contained one
portion of chicken tikka pwnsala and the obligatory free pwnpadom.
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Marcus
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| posted on 10/4/06 at 08:48 PM |
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mmm
Sump surfing, not a passtime I enjoy. Have got away with it too many times, due for a biggy!
Marcus
Marcus
Because kits are for girls!!
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greggors84
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 12:29 AM |
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How much to get a bit of ali machined to fit the pinto pump you reckon, home lathe jobby? Or machine shop?
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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eddymcclements
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 01:21 PM |
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Oldpc - it's a Stuart Taylor chassis, circa November 2001. As far as I know they subbed out all the fabrication work to someone else, so there
may be wishbones from other mfrs which look the same.
greggors84 - I haven't got the pump yet so I don't know if has 2 intermeshing gears or if it's a trochoidal type with a four-node
impeller inside a 5-node rotor. The former will need an oval housing done in the lathe in a 4-jaw chuck - just offset the workpiece by the required
amount which corresponds to the distance between centres of the two gears.
The latter will need a circular housing with inlet and outlet ports carefully placed to match the OE part.
I still need to decide if I need a two-stage scavenge or if I can overdrive the pump using suitably-sized pulleys to keep up with the flow
requirements of the pressure side of the system.
Eddy
[Edited on 11-4-2006 by eddymcclements]
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Oldpc
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| posted on 11/4/06 at 09:43 PM |
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Thanks Eddy, the guy i bought the chassis from said the welder made chassis for several makers , one being Stuart Taylor so that could well be it.
Hope to make a start over the hols. one very rusty Sierra to pull to bits,
Paul
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oioi
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| posted on 12/4/06 at 07:22 AM |
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sometimes even a dry sump doesnt save you when your flyin
another time i came down hard and managed to rip the gearbox mount in half and shove the prop shaft into the top of the transmission tunnel
that nice curve is where the prop shaft momentarily tried to eat its way through a cross member
tis all good fun tho
That is the Curse of Speed which has plagued me all my life I am a slave to it. On my tombstone they will carve,
"IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME." - Hunter S Thompson
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