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A few (six ) years back one of the Mandurah lumpy humpy guys gifted me an alloy timing cover. This will allow me the option to bolt up ancilliaries (fuel pump or dry sump pump) to the snout of the cam. Need the alloy to be rigid enough to bolt to... the pressed tin factory timing cover is not up to it.

It needed a bit of clearancing, as it was made for a boat (where the factory water pump is not used). Time now to rework the seal to get it to mate up to the Ross balancer, then to mate up the fuel pump to the front of it. Still need to work out how to locate and drill the hole in the front to 10 thou tolerance.

If anyone else has an alloy cover they would like to sell please let me know - I promise to give it a good home in the FED .


Cheers,
Harv

A bloke walks into a bearing shop with a bag of trouble…

With the timing cover on, I need to think about sealing the crank. The alloy cover is about 2.5” diameter OD on the crank seal, much bigger than standard. It is designed to seal this marine thrust assembly discussed here:
https://www.fbekholden.com/forum/viewto ... st#p236839


So I took the old seal, some limitations on what it could be, added some dry sump pump bearings and seals (more on that later), and took the bag of trouble to the bearing shop. A terrible mix of metric, imperial, and torn bits.

The bloke behind the counter could not read the bearing or seal numbers any clearer than I could without magnification, and smiled when I said “grey motor”. These are good signs.

They were patient with me, and now I have a bag of solutions, including a crank seal. Special alloy timing cover compared to standard seals below:


Cheers,
Harv

Love it.


FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie

Got one of the two dry sump pumps cleaned up and rebuilt. This one had come off a grey motor on a boat. No idea who made it. It runs counter-clockwise (i.e. cam drive, not crank drive).


1. Pressure casing
2. Relief valve casing
3. Suction casing
4. Casing end cover
5. Drive shaft
6. Casing bolts – four off ¼-20UNCx2.75”
7. Tachometer cable drive
8. Tachometer cable jam nut – ½-26BSB
9. Tachometer cable drive mounting bolts – two off #10-24UNCx½”
10. Suction idler gear
11. Suction drive gear
12. Suction drive gear woodruff key – ANSI #3 full radius
13. Pressure idler gear
14. Pressure drive gear
15. Pressure drive gear woodruff key – ANSI #3 full radius
16. Pump discharge to oil tank nipple - 3/8-18NPT to -10AN
17. Pump suction from sump nipple - 3/8-18NPT to -10AN
18. Pump discharge to engine nipple - 3/8-18NPT to -10AN
19. Pump suction from oil tank nipple - 3/8-18NPT to -10AN
20. Relief valve passage drilling plugs – two off 1/8-27NPT
21. Relief valve passage drilling plugs safety wire
22. Relief valve assembly cap - 9/16-18UNF
23. Relief valve assembly fibre washer - 9/16”IDx- 7/8”OD
24. Pump pressure tuning spacer – 9mm diameter x 0.140” thick, approx. 50psi/inch of thickness
25. Relief valve spring mount
26. Relief valve spring – 7.8lb/inch
27. Relief valve piston
28. Relief valve piston stop
29. Pump discharge pressure gauge nipple - 1/8-27NPT to -3AN.

Still have to finish overhauling the second one. Good rainy day job. Not sure which one I will use yet.

Cheers,
Harv