gm oil pumps and high powered pub talk let engines =

[Rick Draper]

Proper bost dtavros,

[philip2]

topman thenlmao

[Rick Draper]

topman thenlmao

barnes wankes off dogs with goats. there is nowt top going off here...

[Barnes]

barnes wankes off dogs with goats. there is nowt top going off here...

ken? hi rick

lmao

[Rick Draper]

HI NIC

[Barnes]

so yes before someone mentions it, bearings were off to be checked. it gets about 4.5-5 bar oil pressure from cold. 1.5 bar on warm idle. 3.5-4 ish bar on driving

hopefully its saved. im still praying. drove it tonight, no knocks, no rattles nothing.

[Rick Draper]

Only rattle i encountered was the death rattle from the 23 year old aussie bird as i gave her the choaker....

[jonlem]

Welcome back Rick

[spanishfly]

lmao @ Rick.

Nic (Ken?) that's a c**t thing for someone to do! Hope the car is ok! Sounds promising.

[matthew172]

oh hell sounds like you have had a stroke of luck or even just a stroke??

[Barnes]

lmao @ Rick.

Nic (Ken?) that's a c**t thing for someone to do! Hope the car is ok! Sounds promising.

aye im less angry and more dissapointed someone could do that kind of thing. early signs are that maybe ive got lucky. but i guess you never can tell. its getting an oil change in a bit with some unipart finest stuff.

although, there are no signs of the oil pump having anything going through it. its not got hot from no oil. i think the pump itself just failed.

[MSG]

they opened bonnet as its just in bonnet pins and poured gravel into the dip stick tube. believe it or not, it happened. wasw bits of it and red brick stuff in bottom of sump. cant have come from anywhere else.

was too big to go up pick up pipe luckily.

Wouldn't it be easier if they just put a shovel of sand through the oil filler cap instead of the dip stick, theu must have used some funnel to do that!! Did you see anyone with a shovel or a funnel? lmao

[Barnes]

sorry no i didnt. i dont know whats easier, i dont know what they did i wasnt there to witness it otherwise id certainly not have been driving th car would i?

only clues to it being the dipstick tube are when i went round a friends house week before last, i could smell oil. so i open bonnet and found dipstick hanging out. hence thats what i assume happened.

whatever.

[Rs1]

I reckon your right about it just failing.....probably due to winging high rpm and clattering of the limiter over a period of time.

Test it to destruction FTW

[turbo gav]

York FTW

[Barnes]

how did you get on?

[turbo gav]

how did you get on?

Dont know im racing you in the morning! im still 150 miles away....... shall we say 10 am?

[GAZ`D]

never thought much of it at the time but my calibra ( totally std with 97k on the clock, me as the second owner,fsh) got in it one day on my way home oil light came on and couple of seconds later went off,thought it was just a bit of crap in switch or switch iffy as on way home got on bypass little thresh all good,next day started in the morning oil light straight out drove about a mile oil light came on and stayed on in traffic and after finding somewhere to pull over(about 1 min if that) hydrolic followers started to tap,shut down engine.when we removed the pump (the original gm one ) it was much the same as this one it just failed just like this one.


all the times we have rebuilt our engine and all the abuse it has had,we have never as yet had an oil pump fail and they have all been the cheapest one we can find at the time (currently FIA/FAI ? ) never ever bought a gm one

[Barnes]

all the times we have rebuilt our engine and all the abuse it has had,we have never as yet had an oil pump fail and they have all been the cheapest one we can find at the time (currently FIA/FAI ? ) never ever bought a gm one

there maybe a moral in that story. im also on cheap ass oil pump now. gm has had its chance and failed. if this fails, its 1/5 of the price so 4 more to go through yet before i get annoyed.

ken tec value parts ftw. no det present.

[GAZ`D]

will say hi to you at york tomorrow if your there mate we will be

[turbo gav]

will say hi to you at york tomorrow if your there mate we will be

Good lad glad your coming.....so Nic Gaz'd wants to see you too lmao

[Barnes]

sorry and that but im still not 100% confident that everything has gone. i want a few more oil changes etc done first. its not the pump failing that bothers me, more the bits in the sump.

[leesturbo]

just a case of it happens regardless of power of engine.
get it rebuilt job done
bummer for the pocket thats all

[spanishfly]

Fingers crossed it's all cool matey

[turbo gav]

sorry and that but im still not 100% confident that everything has gone. i want a few more oil changes etc done first. its not the pump failing that bothers me, more the bits in the sump.

But if you cleaned the sump out there will be no bits there? im off to York see you in the morning xx