I need a couple tonight.
My proper van, my LDV Maxus needs a new engine. Started out with a turbo problem sucking oil out of the sump and creating clouds of smoke when being driven. Managed to get a decent 2nd hand turbo for £130, and then spent 2 days removing the old turbo - of course dealing with well corroded nuts and studs, two broken studs, figuring out how to take the turbo out when there is limited access to the nuts that hold it onto the exhaust manifold etc. Ended up taking the manifold off. Unable to to remove the exhaust as the studs were all completely corroded etc.
Anyway, took the sump off this morning as the it has been used at some point to support the engine, probably to change the timing belt as it involves removing one of the engine mounts to do it, and the sump is very deformed with the drain plug being above the rest of the sump and therefore probably leaving a litre of oil in it when draining. Taken off to be treated to some hammering to get it back into approximately the right shape. Also, for some reason, also the oil only dribbles out of the sump......
Anyway, turns out that the sump nut had been pushed up into the oil feed pick up pipe for the oil pump and dented it severely, reducing it's diameter by more than half, which probably explains the reason the turbo has gone bang due to oil starvation.....
however, worst of all was finding bits of a broken oil scraper piston ring at the bottom of the sump.....
New engine time!!!!
Bum
Large one please!
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