This was the NAUGHTY CORNER

As to welding up the sump and starting again... that would be great... but I work in the kerb with the bare minimum of basic tools and no power source. I have no welder, no weldling equipment and absolutely no welding experience. I also have no budget and no time... so going out and investing in the kit and the education needed to weld up the sump for RRG simply isn't an option.

I agree that the best option in terms of likely outcome and amount of time/effort will be to replace the sump. I just want to make sure it's going to work first, and of course, it will all need properly cleaning up, rust protecting and painting first.

Post edited: I followed a train of thought and the post got too long and sounded a bit ranty when it wasn't actually ranty at all = )

sandy , me old mucker ! ....something to bear in mind , in case it has not crossed your cerebellum , is that sometimes , in trying to gouge a different thread in a sump , the metal ring the sump thread is mashed into cracks , and leaks from the crack .

so a thorough brake cleaning and your strongest glasses ,and adopting a prone position maybe a wise path and give your ring a really good looking at to see if its cracked and leaking .

RJ

Ahhhh, you know what, I bet that's what it is. It leaves me wondering how the garage managed to make it leak free for a year but if you are right then they must have found a way to pack it/seal it.

But I bet you're right. I ruddy well bet you ruddy well are Julian.

It had not crossed my ruddy cerebellum at all. Not ruddy well once.


Do you know the thing I get really the most annoyed about most of ruddy all when I'm having to endlessly drain the ruddy oil out to try and clean the ruddy hole. Do you know? Do you know what annoys me the ruddy most?

You don't know. You don't know what annoys me the most, so I'm ruddy well going to tell you what it is.

It's the ruddy fact that the ruddy oil never stops coming out. Ever. Not ruddy ever. I left it draining for a ruddy day once last year (actually overnight too), and I did stuff like scooping out the last of the oil, stuffing a sponge and a ruddy rag in there to soak up the last of it.

Then I'd ruddy well start cleaning it and some ruddy oil would ruddy well come out again.

That's the thing that really makes me ruddy furious about constantly having to drain the ruddy oil. The ruddy oil is what annoys me. The ruddy oil annoys me the most because it doesn't just ruddy ever properly ruddy leave.

GRAVITY BE DAMNED!

My car is always parked outside my house. A one way street, so the car is already tipped about 30º because of the insane camber of the road. Then I jack it up at the driver's side so it tips even further away from the hole. So by rights, if gravity was doing its ruddy job properly, all the residual oil should be pooling at the far side of the sump away from the ruddy hole.

BUT IT RUDDY DOESN'T.

SO SOD GRAVITY AND ITS HIGHLY SELECTIVE APPROACH TO A VERY SIMPLE TASK, AND SOD OIL FOR BEING COMPLICIT IN THE RUSE.

Next time, I'm tipping the car onto its roof. And setting fire to it to burn all the oil off.

Hahaha, I'm always one step ahead Blackpop. Always anticipating everybody's next move.

It's why I'm so good at chess.

Wait, not chess. I don't play chess.

What am I thinking of....

oh yes. Snap. I'm ruddy good at snap. Best in class. You just have to shout SNAP! every time somebody puts a card down. Never fails. Nobody will play me anymore because they know they can't beat me.

ruddy
ˈrʌdi/Submit
adjective
1.
(of a person's face) having a healthy red colour.
"a cheerful pipe-smoking man of ruddy complexion"
2.
BRITISHinformal
used as a euphemism for ‘bloody’.
"young people today, they're a ruddy shower"
synonyms: complete, total, utter; More
verb
1.
make ruddy in colour.
"a red flash ruddied the belly of a cloud"

Nothing accurate that I can quote in figures, but to give you an idea...



I'm past re-tapping the hole now. It just needs the sump replacing long term, and short term if I try to get it to RRG I'm just going to pull it, use a fresh sump plug from my extensive collection, Loctite557 it and pack as many bodges on top as I can.




That may well be an additional factor but the most obvious thing is that the threads don't match and the plug was just forced in anyway, which chewed all the thread off the sump plug. I've been trying not to worry about the possibility of bits of thread floating around in my oil.

Cool, actual car stuff, didn’t sound too much lik a tractor so take it as a win !
Do we need to have a whip round to sponsor a tube of autosol and a rag to polish up the steering wheel centre a bit? Rest of the dash bodges look ok so reckon it’s letting the side down.
Anyway about that sump plug fixed it yet...
Ta for sharing
James

It has always held good oil pressure. Behaves exactly as it should.

According to the gauge anyway.



James, I have Autosol, I have rags.

I should probably have a go at that at some point. At this point though all of my dreams of arriving at RRG in an immaculate ode to automotive style have been abandoned. It's the essential oily stuff from here onwards if I have any chance of getting it there.



Next job... run it around to see if it's still bogging. If so, isolate the servo, try it again. If it's the servo... decide if I can live with it for now or go ahead and replace it.

Then... Ruddy sump plug.

Then... ruddy I don't ruddy know. I'll have to go back through pages of all you lot's drivel to find where I made my lists.