Broke the van at the weekend......

[oldbus64]

We came over with a few mates for the Retro Rides meet at Gaydon at the weekend.



I was bimbling along at 55 mph without a care in the world when all of a sudden the 24V started knocking and blew up on me....

Not a happy teddy bear!



My mates dragged me along the hard shoulder up to the services where i waited 8 hours for the AA to get there finger out...

After leaving it at a secure compound at Croyden we then caught up with the others and had a fantastic weekend at Gaydon - wasn´t going to let it get me down!!!

Anyway, good job i have international recovery, the ADAC (german AA) are sorting the transport out and with a bit of luck i should have it back home within a couple of weeks.....

Oil pressure and level were fine, water temp too. Slight knocking followed by a big bang and a hole in the sump!!!

The engine had only done 120,000 miles and was running great...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467bVjQGvT4

Only thing I can think of is oil starvation but i´ve done about 2000 miles since the conversion. I had to use a smaller sump to clear the front beam so maybe there wasn´t enough oil in the system...?

I´ll probably never find out but it looks like i´ll be making a new front axle so that I can use the original sump on the replacement engine.

[Luke]

thats a bugger

how much smaller was the new sump

[oldbus64]

thats a bugger

how much smaller was the new sump

I modified a 2.8 one to take the two breather pipes........

[madmark]

sorry to here this dave and after all the hard work as well!

[oldbus64]

sorry to here this dave and after all the hard work as well!

Wasn´t too chuffed but due to having plenty of german beer with us it didn´t ruin our weekend!!

[madmark]

if i would of known you had come all the way over i would of bourt up the feuerwehr mk1 !

[Luke]

thats a bugger

how much smaller was the new sump

I modified a 2.8 one to take the two breather pipes........

i would have thought that would be ok

[madmark]

same here i think its more engine /crank than the sump!
120,000miles is a fair amount but not that bad! but what ever happend it sounds like it dropped a rod off!

[jay]

why not go dry sump with the new engine(if u can do that)

[oldbus64]

Cheers guys,
i´m going to have to re-think the front axle any way as it´s very uncomfortable and no good on long journeys, so i might as well do it properly now i´ve got time and the engine´s out!!