Actually, if he got a small oil tanker, all his problems would be solved!
Ah yes my oil tank saga...
I suppose it's time for one of my sporadic lack of progress reports.
Where I left off I was clearing Borneo and that did continue for a while until the nights drew in, then it was occasional weekends when it wasn't hammering down but these seem to be few and far between.
I also left all my garden clearing gear in my work shed because it is closest to where I need it, this makes it very difficult to do any other stuff in the shed such as oil tanks, for instance.
On the run up to Christmas, and my birthday which is the day before it, I told everyone who would listen that it would be nice if I had a few quid to get some bits for my engine.
The Lovely Dr (Mrs Tea) quite liked the idea because she thinks that it will mean that I move all my engine bits from the conservatory and into the shed.
As I now found myself swimming in gravy, I splashed out on a couple of these.
They replace the old plastic ones that have been there decades.
It is part of the oil feed to the cams and chain tensioners.
I'm not particularly keen on plastic bits on engines and especially in critical places like oil supply.
I also need to get some new piston squirters, I might have mentioned it.
These will need to come out to clean the oil galleries in the cases after they have been vapour blasted.
The only way to remove the Porsche ones is by destroying them.
They are glued in the bearing saddle then it is staked over as well.
You need to file off the bits where it was peened over then take a long 5mm drill bit and drill off the cap.
I used a smaller diameter drill first to open up the orifice so the 5mm would centre nicely.
You only have to go down a couple of millimetres to release the cap so drilling by hand is no problem.
With the cap off you can get the ball and spring out.
This leaves the barrel left in the hole and to get this out we use a 5mm tap.
The tap had to be really tight in the tool because the barrel is loctited in, so you have to pull quite hard to get it out.
I heated the bearing saddle with a blowtorch then levered it out with some bits of wood.
I'm going to replace them with these.
They make two different diameters, 6mm and 6.6mm.
The 6mm is the standard size so if you get them out ok you can fit these but if you mess up the holes you have the option of an oversize.
Mine came out perfectly so they should be 6mm, but they all measured up around 6.25mm.
I decided that I would get the oversize and ream the holes so suit.
I went on the website, filled out all the stuff but every time I go to the payment page it says there is a fault try later.
I have emailed them but have had no reply as yet so I'm still looking.
In other news, the cylinder head that the vapour blaster said he didn't break has been sent to the Dark Lord, Johnny Bravo, and returned to me after being lasered back together.
This has gotten me out of the mire, Johnny is some kind of wizard.
I might try to dress the weld down a bit, I don't know yet.
I really need to get stuck into sorting my new shed out this year so that I can have some room to work on my oil tank...
