[ROVERNET - UK] Starter Woes/Weepy Engine Side Cover TC2000

Sat Dec 22 07:45:24 GMT 2007

Hi all
Happy Christmas etc from Oz.  Someone told me once that the thing to do with 
side covers was to remove, sandblast or similar aggresive cleaning and then 
tin with solder on the inside surface.  This procedure would theoretically 
repair the side cover pin holes, fill suspect corrosion pits and prevent 
further corrosion.  Is this possible / desirable etc.  Cheers

Roger
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vern Klukas" <vern at inkspotco.com>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Starter Woes/Weepy Engine Side Cover TC2000

>I agree that doing it in car is tough, but doable.
>
> New sideplates are readily available.
>
> As for flat stainless plates, corrosion shouldn't be a problem, 
> considering we all change our coolant regularly (nudge, nudge) and that is 
> the only advantage to that approach given you can get new ones.
>
> You'll need new gaskets as well, Ruth can advise on those.
>
> If you can determine the weep's source, and it is just a pinhole or two, 
> you can buy time by draining the coolant, cleaning a good sized patch 
> around the pinholes really, really well, then applying something like JB 
> Weld or gas tank patch putty over the entire cleaned area. It works OK, if 
> you really only have a pinhole or two, they aren't real close to the 
> plate's edge and the patch is at least a couple of inches in size. Oh, and 
> when I say clean, I mean eat off it clean.
>
> Yours
> Vern
>
>
>
>
>>It is possible to remove them with engine in situ.
>>I have done it.
>>It is Not easy!  Rover P6...
>>If you have an engine lifter, go that way.
>>The hardest part is removing the engine mount stud things.
>>There is no easy way.  You have to put the 9/16 nuts back on with washers 
>>for the large nuts to tighten against, and heave on the large nuts.
>>I didn't remove the oil pump, but that may have been a mistake.
>>They can be welded up.  You will need to pull the left one too, and remove 
>>all the sludge.
>>Yes I have stainless ones on my car now.  They were made by Jimmy, Royce's 
>>friend.
>>Just flat plates with the holes drilled.  This increases the water volume, 
>>which slows warmup.
>>Always use a corrosion inhibitor in the water.
>>
>>PVS
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: <rwacek at comcast.net>
>>To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
>>Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 2:48 PM
>>Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Starter Woes/Weepy Engine Side Cover TC2000
>>
>>>Season's Greetings Rovernetters.
>>>
>>>I'm the guy who lost his starter spring and nut down in the bellhousing. 
>>>After hours of fishing for it I took Ruth's advice and drilled a hole in 
>>>the bottom of the bellhousing (after finding a metal holesaw) just behind 
>>>the flywheel. There the culprits were! Problem was the hole was 1 1/4 
>>>inch and the spring was about 1 3/8 inch. So I drilled another one right 
>>>next to the edge of the first one. I then rasped away the excess. I now 
>>>have a rectangular hole 1 1/4 inch by about 2 or 2 1/8 inches. It's 
>>>rectangular but with rounded inside corners if you can imagine. I then 
>>>obsessed about finding a rubber hole plug to fit. Googled "rubber hole 
>>>plug" and went off in another universe. If I had just drilled a 1 1/2 
>>>hole to begin with it would have been a much easier task to find a plug. 
>>>I know there is a plug somewhere in the world that will work. The biggest 
>>>issue is the 3/16 inch thickness of the bellhousing. Anyway what I wound 
>>>up doing was gluing a thin aluminum brake caliper silen
>>>cer pa
>>>d over the hole. It actually looks like it could be a factory cover. 
>>>We'll see how long that will last
>>>Meanwhile while I was under there I noticed that the RH engine sidecover 
>>>was "wweping". The LH is OK. It looks like if I removed the RH engine 
>>>support and then braced that side I could remove the sidecover although 
>>>with inherent difficulty. Anyone done this? Then there would be the 
>>>matter of finding another sidecover. Didn't I read years ago on this list 
>>>about someone who had stainless ones fabricated? All advice would be 
>>>massively appreciated.
>>>
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