Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Engine Done Blowed Up Real Good!

Post Race Engine Inspection : 24 Hours of LeMons The Real Hoopties of New Jersey 2012

MGB Oil Pan Removal

Can't quite get the socket into that tiny place to remove the oil pan? WWGD? (What Would Guinness Do?) Make your own socket!

Grinding a 7/16th Socket to fit MGB Oil Pan Bolt
ShortBus Socket
ShortBus Socket half done (left); CrapTastic Harbor Fright socket thingy sucks donkey doo-doo (right)



MGB Oil Pan Shrapnel

Finally removed the oil pan... and immediately found the problem - no oil in that one section!!! How could we have been so stupid!?!?! Let me just dump all these random bits of British Steel out of the pan, and refill with oil...



Oh yeah, and these issues may be problems too...






































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