Day 20- Dry Sump Hoses
Hoses
This part was quite tricky and took quite a long time to finish. This was mainly due to the hoses being very tight for length, and that the angled neck of each hose only allows it go certain ways to travel from the cooler to the tank. Hoses join:
- The LHS of the cooler to sump tank top.
- The RHS of the cooler to engine out.
- The bottom connection of the sump tank goes to the engine sump in.
We found that the connections with smaller diameter necks went onto the engine connections, the medium right angle connections went onto the underside of the oil cooler, and the larger necked connections went onto the sump tank connections.
The hoses don't reach from the oil cooler to their destination if the instructions are followed (possibly only for SV cars), as they are not long enough to go along the bottom of the radiator and around the LHS of the radiator.
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| The RHS - engine out hose runs under the radiator, under the steering rack, under the diagonal chassis tube, and onto the connection. The short hose from the bottom of the sump tank to the sump connection, goes straight on, just making sure it doesn't foul on anything. |
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| The top sump tank hose tuns straight down, under the radiator and straight onto the LHS of the oil cooler. |
A lot of care has to be taken to ensure that the blue threaded heads aren't cross threaded, as they are very easy to damage due to them being aluminium.
Before finishing we noticed that we hadn't done anything with the large hole in the front of the sump tank. However there weren't any instructions even mentioning it, so we found an appropriately sized bolt then planned to buy some copper washers in order to be able to adequately seal the hole.
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| Hole in front left of tank??? Not a drain hole as there is one in the underside... |
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