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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / gearbox dipstick and filler

« on: July 16, 2008, 21:41:56 »

Can someone please tell me how to top up the gearbox on the 2 litre saloon with oil. It's not clearly explained in the owners manual and I've found the correct place but it feels like there something missing? There's a 3" hole in the aluminium cowling. with a pivoted cover that rotates on a rivet to reveal a 2" knurled wheel/disc. Now this is very stiff and I've assumed it's a threaded dip stick...but I've now got blisters from turning it anticlockwise (about 50 half turns and it doesn't feel like it's moving upwards....
     Just what is the arrangement of the dipstick/filler hole?
    Thanks.

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / red external full flow oil filter plumbing?

« on: June 22, 2008, 14:32:25 »

I'm plumbing in the red full flow oil filter in to the UMB engine and I'm having trouble understanding the plumbing.
    It would seem sensible to plumb it directly after the old filter and straight into the main bearing oil supply gallery pipes. (in series as it were with the old oil filter.
    However when I removed it from the old engine my diagrams show it to be feeding it's filtered oil into the port near the camshaft chain.
    All photographs I have found of the weller engine also show this arrangement.
    Can anyone explain the reason behind this, (possibly so as not to reduce oil pressure to main bearings) but I can't see how thre's any benifit.
    Any photographs or diagrams of the plumbing would be much appreciated.
    Keith.
    Also, I undestand some people run engines with just the old oil filter in place, would I be risking too much by doing this for a short time just to turn the engine over?

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / oil choice for weller engine?

« on: June 12, 2008, 12:40:50 »

Can someone recommend a modern oil for the weller engine as the info i currently have is contadictory.
    Also I'm ready to fill up the radiator and would like to know what mix of water antifreeze is best.
    thanks in advance.[]

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / question on the design of the inlet manifold

« on: June 08, 2008, 19:03:59 »

I'm having trouble sealing the inlet manifold of the UMB engine I'm working on.
    My question is- why does the cooling water flow through the gasket so as to contact the centre inlet manifold? The other two inlet manifolds do not have this arrangement and so have simpler gaskets with air/petrol contact only.
    The only thing i can think of is that it's something to do with the thermostatially controlled central carb? :-?
    I'm using graphite based 1.5mm gasket meterial and having filled up the radiator The centre inlet gasket leaked.... I immediately dismantled and removed the inlet manifold. Everything's now been dried and I will re fit the inlet manifold next wekend.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
   Oh and what's the normal running temperature of the gaskets on the inlet side? (I thought graphite gaskets were for high temps)
    Thanks.

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Vintage, PVT & 2 Litre Forum / removing cylinder liners?

« on: November 01, 2007, 20:13:11 »

Hello, firstly I'm a relative novice to engine mechanics though have just started work stripping a 2 litre saloon engine.
    I have removed pistons 1 through 5 out the bottom of the engine and am now presented with a problem for piston 6. It's route out the bottom is blocked (by the alternator?) so after some research I learned that removal out the top was possible after cylinder liner removal.
    The brief instructions (from the 2 litre engine project website) however suggest that liners can be lifted in pairs using two screwdrivers under the lip.
    Firstly I don't understand why it suggests 'in pairs' are they attached together in some way? and this lip under which to place the screwdrivers doesn't seem to exist!
    It seems the head gasket was glued or sealed with some sort of red resin?[:0] The liners just won't budge. I've tried mallet and piece of wood from underneath. [:I]
    I've tried filling the coolant void of the block with hot water and have been soaking penetrating oil into the top but there doesn't seem to be much of a gap to absorb the lubricant.
    Really I need to understand which part exactly is going to come out the thickness of this liner and the position of this lip where the screwdrivers should be placed.
    I am assuming these are 'dry liners' is this the case?
   
   The other problem I have is the block is about 1/3 full of bluey green crystals mixed with what looks very like scale.
    I've collected some of this stuff and tried dissolving in both water and vinegar to no avail.
   
    There seems also to be some corrosion of the engine block top surface possibly due to leaking coolant? If the head bolts/studs are removed can/should this be skimmed cos' the way i see it the liners will protrude too far unless adapted also?
    Any help much appreciated.
   Keith.