Sludge pumpers - best place for em........
Discussion
OK anyone who knows me well will know I will be late for my own cremation so unlikely to be on time for anything else.......
Boys already hard at work when I arrive (so they said)
I actually know that the ramp was only just going up for the first time when I arrived but if you ask either Paul or Tony they will tell you it's had been up in the air for 20 min and they already had the auto box out and on the floor - bloody liars :lol:
Anyway this is a sort or ABS/Norfolk Monza Mafia pre/post Christmas traddition - take one perfect running Club car (Senator or Monza it's not like we are fussy) and remove the perfectly happy sludge pumper and replace it with a long throw POS 265 or R35/R28 with numerous issues still to sort out... I'm sure the picture is pretty clear now and it's just a bit of fun
Anyway 2 hrs later after a blur of activity (TS and PB doing all the work BC sucking hard on some tabs and doing all the essential planning - "yep guys defo those bolts next" - "OK maybe not those"
Anyway by midday the sludge pumper was really out (Tony had been out the night before for several sherbets so wasn't as organised or as enthuisiastic as normal - honest he's a flippin blur most of the time but with a hangover not quite as lively as normal)
So having removed it we had to put the new one in (after we locked off the crank and removed the flexiplate (BC brought the wrong locking tool so the starter had to come out to fit the one he did bring - hey I brought one - you beggars hadn't got one at all)
BC also managed to forget his clutch alighnment tool - see a pattern developing here yet? (if whoever has borrowed it could return it please?) so he lined it up by eye - like that's gonna work :?
Box in first time 8-) - Oh ye with little faith better remove the auto shifter - come on Paul..... We need to get the firewall sound deadening out of the joint between bell houising and block (good tip for anyone there - stanley is your friend)
Preparing the new reversing light loom - of course they don't work yet that's just a loom....
Push yer glasses up and crimp the damn things
All done box in and that wheel should be moving - honest it should be moving - sheesh Paul adjust the clutch agaim
Oi Paul guive it some welly
Thats better
Right home time
Yep best use for a sludge pumper "ballast" to stop Paul laying down an eleven.........
There may or may not have been some other issues but first law of "Box swap club" is........... There is no "Box swap Club"
Happy Xmas
Boys already hard at work when I arrive (so they said)
I actually know that the ramp was only just going up for the first time when I arrived but if you ask either Paul or Tony they will tell you it's had been up in the air for 20 min and they already had the auto box out and on the floor - bloody liars :lol:
Anyway this is a sort or ABS/Norfolk Monza Mafia pre/post Christmas traddition - take one perfect running Club car (Senator or Monza it's not like we are fussy) and remove the perfectly happy sludge pumper and replace it with a long throw POS 265 or R35/R28 with numerous issues still to sort out... I'm sure the picture is pretty clear now and it's just a bit of fun
Anyway 2 hrs later after a blur of activity (TS and PB doing all the work BC sucking hard on some tabs and doing all the essential planning - "yep guys defo those bolts next" - "OK maybe not those"
Anyway by midday the sludge pumper was really out (Tony had been out the night before for several sherbets so wasn't as organised or as enthuisiastic as normal - honest he's a flippin blur most of the time but with a hangover not quite as lively as normal)
So having removed it we had to put the new one in (after we locked off the crank and removed the flexiplate (BC brought the wrong locking tool so the starter had to come out to fit the one he did bring - hey I brought one - you beggars hadn't got one at all)
BC also managed to forget his clutch alighnment tool - see a pattern developing here yet? (if whoever has borrowed it could return it please?) so he lined it up by eye - like that's gonna work :?
Box in first time 8-) - Oh ye with little faith better remove the auto shifter - come on Paul..... We need to get the firewall sound deadening out of the joint between bell houising and block (good tip for anyone there - stanley is your friend)
Preparing the new reversing light loom - of course they don't work yet that's just a loom....
Push yer glasses up and crimp the damn things
All done box in and that wheel should be moving - honest it should be moving - sheesh Paul adjust the clutch agaim
Oi Paul guive it some welly
Thats better
Right home time
Yep best use for a sludge pumper "ballast" to stop Paul laying down an eleven.........
There may or may not have been some other issues but first law of "Box swap club" is........... There is no "Box swap Club"
Happy Xmas
tty 80's opel auto box and stuck in a manual box with the help of some mates. Makes sense to me!
Obscure thread is obscure.Sheesh Guys - I wrongly thought this was a car enthusiast's forum
Automatic Gearbox = Sludge pumper or slush box
Sludge refering to the muck inside because owners think the fluid is for life and don't bother changing it
Slush refers to the manner in which the drive is transmitted
It was an Auto to Manual Gearbox swap on a 1985 Monza GSE - started at 10.30 am yesterday as an Auto and finished by 5.30 pm same day as a manual
It was written as a bit of fun not as a technical guide - that sort of thing is covered in so many places it's not needed here as well
Automatic Gearbox = Sludge pumper or slush box
Sludge refering to the muck inside because owners think the fluid is for life and don't bother changing it
Slush refers to the manner in which the drive is transmitted
It was an Auto to Manual Gearbox swap on a 1985 Monza GSE - started at 10.30 am yesterday as an Auto and finished by 5.30 pm same day as a manual
It was written as a bit of fun not as a technical guide - that sort of thing is covered in so many places it's not needed here as well
Smike said:
B'stard Child said:
Sheesh Guys - I wrongly thought this was a car enthusiast's forum
I liked the post Ian 
Looks in good nick that one - are you down to one Monza now?
One of mine with the one that got the box change
Edited by B'stard Child on Monday 6th December 12:41
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