Big wing sump conversion – questions

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Bearing are by far the most common cause of failure - the oil will be full of debris if it is that.

What about the oil pump relief valve setting?

Usually bearing failure is accompanied by rattling and stuff coming out the breather..

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I think we are getting closer to the cause of the low oil pressure. a clearance of between 0.150 and 0.125 on this main when it should be 0.025 -0.060!
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Its the only one I've taken off so far but there was no knocking so perhaps its only this one.

Will post up some pics of the whole car soon.
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In this point I personally would tear the whole lower end to pieces and check what's wrong. Bearing clearance of that size and that scorched bearing will tell something is really wrong and needs to fixed.

I think folks in this forum won't disagree!
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Good work HudsonHenry!

Tommi you are right, because apart anything else, the whole engine will be contaminated with bearing debris..

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Checked all the mains and have the following clearances:

1) 0.150
2) 0.125 – 0.150
3) 0.125 – 0.150
4) 0.100
5) 0.76

Not sure why they get tighter towards the flywheel, any ideas?

They are all out anyway so its engine out and a strip down.

Luckily an fantastic book arrived today, looks like its going to be very useful...

Probably won't start the strip and rebuild until the end of June as we are about to have half the walls in our house knocked down. Still give me a chance to do some reading.
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Tighter at FW end?

I don't know - and it may not matter - what does matter is ID'ing fundamental cause.

Let us have a photo of the crank when it's out, I can't remember if it's cross-drilled. Failure to clean out such a crank after polishing or grinding - invariably leads to rapid bearing damage - though I am not assuming it was..

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Guy Croft wrote:Tighter at FW end?

I don't know - and it may not matter - what does matter is ID'ing fundamental cause.

Let us have a photo of the crank when it's out, I can't remember if it's cross-drilled. Failure to clean out such a crank after polishing or grinding - invariably leads to rapid bearing damage - though I am not assuming it was..

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The bearings look what I would describe as smudged rather than worn (I know its not a very technical term but the best I can come up with). Could it be that the bearings were just the wrong size and the clearances not checked when the engine was put together? There was only the tiniest trace of metal in the sump.

Will post pics of the crank once its out.
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could be wrong bearings, yes

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