The Lotus Grand Tourers

Yes I did replace the O ring on the distributor as it looked a little 'flat'. Currently taking the sump off to change the infamous nylon olive and check the state of the big ends as it has run for some time now with little to no oil pressure so I'm thinking i really do need to inspect them as a mini...

Yet another chapter in the oil pressure saga.. I have just drained the sump on my Excel with zero oil pressure in preparation for removing the sump, so I can do two things, firstly get the strainer and pickup pipe off and properly examine the infamous nylon olive. I also might dig the plastiguage ou...

That would be great, but in the mean time I have taken the PRV apart and I started a washer to pack it out, it now feels much more like Mike’s description of the effort required to open it (needs my palm rather than just a finger to open) however I pinched the o-ring putting it back together and los...

Hi Pete, The head is still fitted, what I am uncertain of is as to where I should force oil to check the cam bearings are not too slack, I can see how this could cause low oil pressure if the bottom end is not so bad, previously having had low oil pressure on a rover V8 that was eventually tracked d...

Zaphod. With the auxiliary housing off you can check to see if your cam bearings are shot allowing a lot of oil to go up there, without knocking noises from below. In the same way we bleed brakes with a pressure bottle you can set up a pressure feed to the cam bearing inlet from the exposed engine ...

I did something else just now, I filled the main feed to number 2 main bearing (its the one that is visible when the aux housing is removed) and timed how long it took to drain to the top of the oil feed drilling to emerge. (this is the top of the 'pocket' the drilling is in, to the top of the drill...

Not yet, but there are no signs of this elsewhere and the thing runs silent. For the bearings to be bad enough to result in zero oil pressure I’d expect it to be knocking very noticeably, it doesn’t knock at all. The oil in the sump and oil cooler lines is clear, no debris, and I believe they sit in...

Worked out the hole I can see in the oil gallery is the feed to number 2 main bearing.. might fill it with oil and see how long it takes to drain..

I have also noticed three holes, with the aux housing removed I can see some holes, two large ones and one smaller one, the smaller one I am wondering about as it appears to the in the main oil gallery just under the outlet from the oil cooler return, should it be there? It may be a feed to a main b...

Indeed the pressure relieve valve was my first port of call. I fitted it with a new spring while it was apart The work done so far has improved it, but only so far as the pressure gauge moves (previously is was totally still) but it’s still not moving the needle to the point 0 is uncovered. Today I ...

Sadly I got my old MG Midget oil pressure gauge connected today, it also says little to no oil pressure, it was only taken off the MG due to the temp side of it failing, as that is now three that say the same thing it looks like it does indeed have little to no oil pressure :( so its probably alread...

OK as some may recall I had no oil pressure showing, on either the gauge or the mechanical external gauge and that I had taken the pump apart and fitted new annulus and rotor, along with a new oil relief valve spring, after which I got around 1 bar spinning it up on a cordless drill before the drill...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, I was looking at the wiring diagram for the heated seats in the service notes, they appear to be fully automatic and controlled by the ice detection module, no switches appear to be on the diagram. So if they are fitted would anyone know given heated seats of that v...

The clearance seems to be just over 0.010" I've got some 0.025" gasket material which should crush sufficiently to seal it up

Finally got round to modifying a bolt so I could fit a 17mm socket to the drill. I then span the pump on the engine, the battery on the drill was not up to spinning it for more than a few seconds at a time however the gauged read 20PSI after 3-4 5 second or less spins which is more than I have seen ...