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Severely stuck sump....
By: freewheeling_pubs Date: March 25, 2016, 11:11 am
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Does anyone have any experience of and top tips for the removal
of said sump? All bolts removed, all shit cleaned off, have been
working around the join with a blunt knife (no levering!) but
the bugger won't shift....
#Post#: 101110--------------------------------------------------
Re: Severely stuck sump....
By: Doug_T Date: March 25, 2016, 11:46 am
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I've had two stubborn ones; the first one eventually had to be
persuaded off with a large prybar (no damage was caused to the
sealing faces, and no warping) and the second one was released
by smacking it on the side (as far down as possible) with a
piece of 4x4. Again no damage was caused.
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Re: Severely stuck sump....
By: DarrenH Date: March 29, 2016, 4:27 pm
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i'm afraid i resorted to driving a shallow wedge into the join
on my ninety !
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Re: Severely stuck sump....
By: freewheeling_pubs Date: March 30, 2016, 8:46 am
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Yep, I have to admit after several hours of trying to be nice I
eventually found that a combination of fruity language and
twatting a wedge into it with extreme prejudice persuaded it to
see things from my point of view... :smiley-furious:
Now watch, it'll leak like the CIA when I put it back
together.... :banghead
#Post#: 101280--------------------------------------------------
Re: Severely stuck sump....
By: magnetman Date: April 19, 2016, 9:43 am
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had the same trouble with mine, eventually persuaded it with a
sharp chisel...
word of warning, the original sump gasket was a couple of mm
thick, the replacements are more like paper, if you look at the
sump faces , full of spot weld bumps, you see why you need a
thick gasket....
use a good sealing compound as well as the gasket, and
re-tighten the bolts after a couple of weeks, but dont
overtighten!
#Post#: 101282--------------------------------------------------
Re: Severely stuck sump....
By: NoelC Date: April 20, 2016, 3:05 am
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^^^ good advice there, the gaskets of the modern era are shite
to say the least. Working with old buses and commercials we run
into this all the time, experience has taught us the best
sealant goo to use is, quite surprisingly, the genuine Volvo
black stuff that comes in a cartridge and goes in a mastic gun.
It's expensive in comparison to other stuff but is the mutt's
danglies. We even got a Bedford 330 lump oil tight with it, no
mean feat. ;D
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Re: Severely stuck sump....
By: DarrenH Date: April 21, 2016, 5:42 am
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same here but vauxhall black goo. its RTV polyurethane i think,
smells like vinegar (acetic acid curing)
#Post#: 102635--------------------------------------------------
Re: Severely stuck sump....
By: Cookie7354 Date: November 20, 2017, 4:49 pm
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I had to use a hack saw and eventually all came off. Basically
cut through the old thick gasket on the front corner and it
started to come away.
Rich
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