Sump Damage

Sump Damage

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ukkid35

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Saturday 15th February 2020
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Anyone ever seen anything like this?

Any idea as to the cause?




ukkid35

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Monday 17th February 2020
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The cracks are around the area that is surrounding the oil pickup

The baffle seems to be made of fairly thick steel, so how it has suffered what I presume are stress cracks is a mystery to me

I'll take it apart and post some more pictures later

Edited by ukkid35 on Tuesday 18th February 09:21

ukkid35

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Tuesday 18th February 2020
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Rufus Roughcut said:


There's some baffling under the plate, you can see weld penetration showing through on mine.

The half moon cut out on yours looks like it's hard up against the sump (Could be camera angle) that with weld penetration could have made the plate brittle. If you haven't removed it yet, you'll be in for a shock, it weights a ton!
That's very useful as it shows the plate with the half moon cut is not a repair, but rather a bodge designed to strengthen that part of the baffle assembly that must have suffered from cracks in the past

However it appears to have just shifted the cracks to either side of the plate

I'm getting it welded and will post pics of the repair when I get it back

ukkid35

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Sunday 23rd February 2020
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