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Well, Did it hold water?

Petrol I hope!

she is petrol tight got about 55l in there at the moment, have been filling it up via the jerry can through out the week so that it has had varied levles in the tank.


only did half a day today as we had a birth day this afternoon and i have contracted a disease (man flu if you ask sally), so this week i have pulled the engine to replace the crank case seal, real bugger as it only takes 2min to change it once the fly wheel has been removed, which it was before i mated the engine too the box.

so now all the all liquids are where they should be, oil water petrol,

took here for a drive about 10 miles, and i was smiling all the way!

got back to the work shop and left her ticking over for anouther 30 min to let everything settle, and would you belive it there is a slight leak where the sump mates to the block, i then cracked up all the bolts (there must be 15 of them) anouther quarter turn, and i still have this little leak, so i have another question.

i replaced the the sump gaskit with a new volvo one, when i fitted i did so with a smear of grease (as i have done in the past on motor bike engines with no problems) on both sides and then torqued up the bolts, i am planning on droping the sump and giving it a good clean and then replacing it all with a drop of flange sealant instead of the grease, but i cant work out why the greased gaskit would leak?

neil

Pulled the engine again to change the crank seal? And to think you always say "finish the thought"...
Now I've said that I'll probably leave the clutch release bearing out or something stupid like that

Sump gasket leaks - I reckon it's simply not flat anymore as it's a pressed steel job. Clean all the grease off the gasket, wash all mating faces with petrol or better still brake cleaning spray (less smelly indoors) and refit with a generous bead of engine sealant both sides of the gasket.

Never use silicone - it's not oil-resistant and bits come off and clog oil drillings - but the proper polyurethane stuff.

Job done.

I use this logic when replacing gaskets....

Customer is paying for a leak fixing.
Customer doesn't want another oil leak.
I don't want to do the job again for nothing.
Gasket gets pasted wether it needs it or not.
Nothing ever leaks.
Nothing comes back.

silverbullet wrote:I saw the man in question today. He used to import TD panel vans 20 or 30 at a time for Vaillant Boilers service engineers (cheaper than buying through the UK dealership) specially painted in the corporate colour, a bluey-green aquamarine (all were sold off at 3 years old and lots were converted to campers - the giveaway is the colour code) Reckons he imported about 150 during his time there.
All got about 100 yards running in time, then were thrashed mercilessly...
The ones that went up were all from the same import batch, same story every time: blatting down the motorway and the driver notices the smoke from the rear, pulls over and by the time he's rung the AA he needs the Fire Brigade too! Totally burnt out in all cases.

So diesel Transporters did indeed have engine fires after all

There is no insulation in the area you speak of.
The undertray and engine bay are devoid of insulation in that area.
I'm just confused by the "notorious" part as I have never heard of it.

Diesel has a capital D.

Why would 3 year old vans need "running in"?

Poor choice of words on that one I meant that they weren't that popular with the Vaillant service engineers when the word got round that some from the last import batch were catching fire.
The "brief" running in was from new, they were sold off at 3 years.
To be fair to the man in question, he was talking about events that happened around 87-88 and he's not a young man anymore...
As for the punctuation/grammar/spelling...c'mon now

silverbullet wrote: As for the punctuation/grammar/spelling...c'mon now

LOL .... There is no room for educated people on this forum .....