That`s interesting, do you mean the initial photo of prior to my swiping engine grime onto it in an attempt to `clean it up` for photos; ie the one on zoom when in situ? There appears a fine dirty line with ingrained contamination on the right hand side ..is that what you mean I wonder. I wasn`t...

Just one difficult long bolt but otherwise it went to plan, more or less. Timing Cover is now removed as a lump with water pump still attached, and naturally the integral oil pump too. I may get away with not having to remove the sump again after a bit of coolant entered the gap on breaking the...

Gently but firmly Done! All marked up and photographed prior to lifting out, logging slight anticlockwise movement of drivegear on extraction. Thank you for your `understanding` :rolleyes:

Okay, thanks for that .. I was just being a bit gay with it then I suppose, a bit more force to be used today.

Hi All Today I pondered on the best way to begin. So the oil filter came off and so began the 3rd drain of Magnatec in two weeks. As far as I can see the order of things is : 1) Somehow remove the main pulley wheel attached to the end of the crank shaft .. locked on by all of 200ftlbs of...

3.9i `94, MA097*** VIN No. D1 had `an` oil leak on purchase 13 months ago and after `finishing` all the main jobs I decided to try and make this the first D1 (or any Landy) to run with no oil leaks (just dreaming, please read on ..). Located the main leak which was from the oil pressure switch...

Whilst fitting the new oil filter I pondered on the little oil leak from `just above`. Was it The Lord telling me something, I asked myself? Was he annointing me personally for goodness knows what? No, after looking on our Good Forum it appeared to be a leak from the oil pressure switch. No...

Sorry to hear about your sunroof wiring. I wouldn`t ever `assume`, not that you are or did, that olde Landieos have had `professionals` working on them. Besides, `professionals` aren`t all they`re cracked up to be anyway, I mean look at Govt ?! LOL!

Yep, peace of mind when an old man is everything (well... you know). Yes had to do `a photo` of me crawling out from the Big Void Underneath.. don`t we just love it. I did a couple including me with glasses at odd angle a la Captain Mainwearing in awkward situation LOL, but out of focus so...

Thinking about it I concur, `The Sump` was likely a dirty depository for bits on the rebuild, and remained so up to the point of the rebuild. Can`t imagine ANYONE dropping a big end nut thru from the top ... and not worrying about it enough to investigate otherwise; unless mechanic was a V8 Sado...

Reason I didn`t go for a sump gasket apart from the delay in getting one was the shape of them & those that were available which in my opinion weren`t quite right. And then besides, the RTV 650 Sealer over all seemed a better option, its not a high pressure space TMU, and sealants have improved...

New oil and filter in this morning and startup; ran for five minutes only, all seems fine apart from the known slight leak from what I learned on the forum earlier was the oil pressure switch which I slipped a `fine` adjustable to to nip up half a turn. Then retightened a touch the sump bolts...

No time to waste on this so the sump came off this morning. It was filthy. Clearly it hadn`t been cleaned for ages or at least if it was cleaned at the last engine build it must have been a pretty quick one. Immediately checked the con rod nuts and bolts and all were there and firmly in place...

If its not broke would be my normal take on things, but the difference here is that I don`t know how long that nut has been sitting in the sump for; could be 10,000miles and several years after somehow falling in sump as spare but not missing from any conrods, 5000 after coming loose but no harm...

That`s cool thanks. But seeing as its in China with up to a month wait as others in the price range would be too presumably, it`ll have to be done the hard way I think. Thanks anyway.

Oops. But its only another drain, sump off and tighten up job, what could possibly go wrong?! Thanks.

In my humble and by comparison I`ve little doubt rather inexperenced opinion, a rebuild might infer something `total and all inclusive` avec big ends, in which case how has it come off and what else is loose? And it would also include a not unreasonable expectation that the sump was cleaned out...

Hmmm. Thanks ALL. Its been running like that for at least 10,000 miles I guestimate, or rather that`s how long ago the rebuild was, but don`t know how long the nut has been laying at the bottom of the sump. Doesn`t seem likely a `spare` big end nut could `fall through` from the top, really...

Hi All Oil change yesterday and I thought I`d poke my little pinky in the sump hole as you do and see what I could feel. Lo and behold I found a nut after wiggling it thru. Engine was rebuilt ` few years ago`, tho` to what extent I do not know but hopefully the basics were done including new...

Fitting towbar..