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Slow progress since picking up the seats; been a bit of an head space roller coaster over the Summer break (back to work on Thursday) so not as much done as I'd have liked.
Firstly, whoever designed around the water pump is evil. There is no easy way to remove and replace it that I can find! I pulled the old one off, and then spent a good 30mins trying to refit it (so I could do the new one in one go, with the new gasket) and gave up. Think there is one hardline that needs to be snigged out the way a bit.
Otherwise, I started to attack the rear main seal replacement. I took the approach of removing the housing, so that also meant removing the sump. This turned out to be a mixed bag.
1) The bottom end looks nice and clean, no muck/sludge in the sump or on the pickup.
A little bit of black RTV on the pickup, but that's not a surprise given how much was used to seal the sump...
Which leads to 2)
The sump
It's had a good hit at somepoint that has damaged it leading to some welding. So, now the decision is which sump to use - the welded up one from the 13B-T or the dented (but unwelded) one from the 3B.
No photos because I'm rubbish (and my hands were too oily to use my phone).
Feels good though to have made some progress, and it stopped me drifting into the head space that had derailed the previous 10 days.
Firstly, whoever designed around the water pump is evil. There is no easy way to remove and replace it that I can find! I pulled the old one off, and then spent a good 30mins trying to refit it (so I could do the new one in one go, with the new gasket) and gave up. Think there is one hardline that needs to be snigged out the way a bit.
Otherwise, I started to attack the rear main seal replacement. I took the approach of removing the housing, so that also meant removing the sump. This turned out to be a mixed bag.
1) The bottom end looks nice and clean, no muck/sludge in the sump or on the pickup.
A little bit of black RTV on the pickup, but that's not a surprise given how much was used to seal the sump...
Which leads to 2)
The sump
It's had a good hit at somepoint that has damaged it leading to some welding. So, now the decision is which sump to use - the welded up one from the 13B-T or the dented (but unwelded) one from the 3B.
No photos because I'm rubbish (and my hands were too oily to use my phone).
Feels good though to have made some progress, and it stopped me drifting into the head space that had derailed the previous 10 days.
