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Went to visit some friends, upon driving down their drive I hear a smack, ahhh, that'll be the sump on a tree stump them. b
ks. Oil pressure gauge drops, engine off, sounded okay when I turned it off. The apollo tank providing a buffer and now draining into a pool on their lawn!
The exhaust has shunted back and marked the not long re-paneled side skins, although it has settled back in it's original position.
I'm popping over tomorrow after work to tow it back up the drive, hopefully missing the stump this time, although I have shaved a chunk off it's height, to inspect. Where it's currently sat in grass, I couldn't see anything, but hopefully it's just the sump and can be welded, otherwise I have to start shipping things in from the UK and the time it's off the road (daily use) starts to add up.
I know I'll need to check the engine mounts and the engine mount brackets. How will the belts fair after an oily coating?
Sods law hey!
ks. Oil pressure gauge drops, engine off, sounded okay when I turned it off. The apollo tank providing a buffer and now draining into a pool on their lawn!The exhaust has shunted back and marked the not long re-paneled side skins, although it has settled back in it's original position.
I'm popping over tomorrow after work to tow it back up the drive, hopefully missing the stump this time, although I have shaved a chunk off it's height, to inspect. Where it's currently sat in grass, I couldn't see anything, but hopefully it's just the sump and can be welded, otherwise I have to start shipping things in from the UK and the time it's off the road (daily use) starts to add up.
I know I'll need to check the engine mounts and the engine mount brackets. How will the belts fair after an oily coating?
Sods law hey!
Oh man, that sux!
Your side skin will smooth back quite well.
That is a lot of movement for the exhaust, so you may have torn the rubber in your engine mounts - they don't handle much travel very well. (Don't ask me how I know...) Also, the engine mounting brackets for the older(?) cars seemed to fracture pretty easily, so you will want to check those.
Oil does degrade rubber, but I think your belts, if cleaned off, will be ok for a while. I doubt you'd need worry much. A timing belt you might want to be a bit more paranoid about.
If the stump punched right through and up into your sump, you may have gouged the crank in some spots. *shrug*
Crank bearings can go very quickly, but it seems you were in the best scenario for this - low speed/low revs/immediate response. So you might be lucky.
I hope it all works out ok!
Your side skin will smooth back quite well.
That is a lot of movement for the exhaust, so you may have torn the rubber in your engine mounts - they don't handle much travel very well. (Don't ask me how I know...) Also, the engine mounting brackets for the older(?) cars seemed to fracture pretty easily, so you will want to check those.
Oil does degrade rubber, but I think your belts, if cleaned off, will be ok for a while. I doubt you'd need worry much. A timing belt you might want to be a bit more paranoid about.
If the stump punched right through and up into your sump, you may have gouged the crank in some spots. *shrug*
Crank bearings can go very quickly, but it seems you were in the best scenario for this - low speed/low revs/immediate response. So you might be lucky.
I hope it all works out ok!
Ahh, all is not lost. Well hopefully not all is lost.
First impressions say that luck was on my side. I should probably underline and put 'first' in bold before it comes to bite me. It looks like it is the brass fitting for the mechanical oil pressure gauge take off which has snapped. The male threaded section is still in the block, but hopefully an easy out will be easy to get it out... WAs a big thwack though, so I'll see.
What thread is this guys? Is the block an M12 x 1.5 or 1/8 BSP thread?
First impressions say that luck was on my side. I should probably underline and put 'first' in bold before it comes to bite me. It looks like it is the brass fitting for the mechanical oil pressure gauge take off which has snapped. The male threaded section is still in the block, but hopefully an easy out will be easy to get it out... WAs a big thwack though, so I'll see.
What thread is this guys? Is the block an M12 x 1.5 or 1/8 BSP thread?
Edited by Gingerbread Man on Monday 25th May 12:30
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