After much scraping and rubbing down, I removed the sump plate and cleaned the mating surfaces before putting it back dry using a couple of old screws to hold it in position. Then it was out with the old oil sight glass, cut a piece of card to mask the hole, mask the oil and temperature senders plus a bit of masking just to stop too much paint getting onto the areas that are yet to be sorted.
On with the paint:
Although my garage is dry and relatively warm, paint does take a while longer to cure fully at this time of year so it was a case of being patient and then I could whip off the sump plate to remove any paint that might have leached:
Same goes for the sump plate and oil filter access plate:
Remembering to remove the oil sight glass aperture masking:
I rummaged through my box of spares to find:
It has been all over with me in my tool roll for years. It's about time that it earned its keep! A wipe with rubber paste to help ease it into place, then a 30mm socket makes a perfect drift and its in:
A new oil filter fitted, then the mating surface of the sump was given a bead of Three-Bond and the plate screwed back down with stainless fasteners (plenty of Alu-slip), before being torqued down.
Finally, the oil filter access cover went back on with a new O-ring and the drain plug a new crush washer (both of which were kindly supplied by Steptoe when he had a clear-out of his stock room, Cheers Neil ).
The excess Three-Bond will be trimmed off after it's had twenty-four hours to set fully.
Next job is the bell-housing painting.
On with the paint:
Although my garage is dry and relatively warm, paint does take a while longer to cure fully at this time of year so it was a case of being patient and then I could whip off the sump plate to remove any paint that might have leached:
Same goes for the sump plate and oil filter access plate:
Remembering to remove the oil sight glass aperture masking:
I rummaged through my box of spares to find:
It has been all over with me in my tool roll for years. It's about time that it earned its keep! A wipe with rubber paste to help ease it into place, then a 30mm socket makes a perfect drift and its in:
A new oil filter fitted, then the mating surface of the sump was given a bead of Three-Bond and the plate screwed back down with stainless fasteners (plenty of Alu-slip), before being torqued down.
Finally, the oil filter access cover went back on with a new O-ring and the drain plug a new crush washer (both of which were kindly supplied by Steptoe when he had a clear-out of his stock room, Cheers Neil ).
The excess Three-Bond will be trimmed off after it's had twenty-four hours to set fully.
Next job is the bell-housing painting.