Shallow Sumpage?

[thatwillis]

it will catch fire if you weld it, with the oil resdiue i would have thought...

if you do it please video it

Brake cleaner will get rid of all the oil 

Ill see if i can do a vid.

[thatwillis]

hahaha Hmm yes that would be a royal pain in the arse and yeah a fire.... 

[houston]

lift the engine?

lift the engine?

How hard is it to do the engine spacers? I'm Guessing you need to do exactly that! With the engine on a hoist and change the spacers. But that can be left for another time once the sump is fixed.


Oh I was expecting people to rate the shallow sumps. I was quoted 92quid + vat at tps! Which is almost the same price as a shallow one!
Does anyone have a trade name i can use to get some discount =D

Welding up a sump? Worth doing any obvious problems with this? Someone at work could weld it up for me i think.

Thanks
James

no need for a hoist, just use a jack on the sump but with a bit wood to spread the load.

arent the sumps aluminium? need to get them very hot for a weld to take if they are

[dantheman6554]

Hmmm welding sump on a car,  not good!   did that once on my corsa , caught fire and blew the rocker cover off due to the pressure!  not good !

I had my old sump Tigged, didnt do a bad job but really its never going to be strong enough against hitting a speed bump at 20 mph!

Dan

[thatwillis]

Yeah its ali so fun to weld but to bad if the welder knoes what there doing. Yeah would be tigged. In a machine shop at the momment so shouldnt be to hard to find some one to weld it.

Ill have a look into engine spacers. That hard to fit yourself?

[dantheman6554]

Wish i had a video of it, i was doing an oil change on the car and noticed a hole in the sump, draiend out what i though was all the oil, stupidly started welding, the gas must have pressurized in the engine then when i ignited the torch, boom!!

Burnt all the sound proofing on the inside of the bonnet!   Lesson Learnt!

Dan 

[GolfGTI8v]

I got a gwerks "shallow" sump on my agu,  Great product in my opinion, fitted really well and has a steel base to protect from any future impacts, came with a new modified pick up pipe. i had to get a different oil return from them as well as it sits at a different angle,  the engine still takes the same amount of oil as standard sump!

Thumbs up for it