Hi everyone just a quick one
I am using a 2litre pinto with the modified sump from tiger
How much oil should i put back in? As i have put about 4 litres back in and there oil coming out of the crank oil seal and i change that not long ago?
Just thinking that if I have over filled it then that’s one of the first places it’s going to leak?
Thanks for any help

Matt

did you emtpy the old oil first?

dunno what sump mods you have doen but wouldn't have thought 4 litres was excessive.

if oil is weeping past thecarnk seal and if you have not run it, then that is not a good signe as the crank webs would be imersed in oil.

what does it show on the dipstick?

Haven't you got a dipstick?
Use that to read the level

Dipstick!

Ok!
To be more pacific i put 3.25 litres with the new filter in! Therefore no oil in the filter
The dipstick is useless at the mo as it hit the bottom of the modified sump by tiger, so you don’t know if there is too much or not enough?
The oil will only leak out when the car is being driven!
This is why I am trying to find out how many litres other people have put in their pinto with a modified sump?
Therefore when I fill the engine up with oil I can make a marker for each litre or half litre to know if the oil is low or to high, as I will have markers on the dipstick?
Is that a better way of putting it??

Without a dipstick you are pissing in the wind. The only way to be sure will be to take the sump off

Can't you cut the dipstick down a bit ?

Did you only shorten the sump?
Or did you made the sump shorter and extend it's loss?

If only shorten, calculate or estimate how much lost(y), Then take Ford technical data and see how much must be there normal(x).
x-y=

grtz
BTW then make a dipstick!

[Edited on 22/5/07 by t.j.]

i modified my own sump and have since found the dipstick is a early carb pinto dipstick in a later injection block so is useless. i put a filter on mine and 2.75 litres of oil, not had any probs yet and always shows good oil pressure

hope that helps

james

Thanks James that was the sort of thing i was looking for as i think that there is to much oil in there and that is why the oil seal is leaking?
The plan is to drain all the oil out then refill half a litre at a time then mark the dipstick so i have some mark to tell me weather in getting low or not and if the pressure is to low just top it up and make a marker!
All I have to do now is make sure that it not a windy day

I was surprised at how little mine took. It was about 3 litres to fill it to max, running like a dream.

D

I spoke to tiger today and they said that the pinto shortened sump that they supply would hold 4.1 litres? Dose that sound a bit much to any of you as well?

Really you should be using the dipstick.... how much does it not go in by? Can you trim it?

Regardless of the depth (and capacity) of the sump, the important thing is you should still have the top of the oil between the marks. Too little and you starve the engine, too much and the crank will whip the oil into froth. Assuming you have the correct dipstick and tube I would trim down the end and use that, its the only way to be sure.

Just my £0.02.

James

i modded my own sump. Bit bigger than a std chop job. It takes between 5.5 and 6l of oil when i also change filter.

4L sounds a bit low to me.