Repairing your damaged alloy sump (for the interim)

[Greg Roles]

I think we chould call the new section the "MacGyver" one. Preen sure did him proud with this effort!

Without metal reinforced epoxies, I'd be lost!

Nice handyword MacPreenster!

[Preen59]

I'll get some pics up of the sump after doing about 1000km (incl. a trip to sydney!!) like that! haha

hey preeny does yours have the fuel cooler sitting under the driver as well?

Yeah mate it does. Got a couple of marks in it too.

[Lams]

not the wisest place to put it... mine takes a beating too. Not sure if it's on the new one. I imagine it wouldn't take much to rip that off and have diesel going everywhere, then a smoker lights it up, Die Hard style

[Transporter]

How did you go with that sump Preene?

[Preen59]

How did you go with that sump Preene?

Held up no probs! I have a new sump on now. Sam from INA sent me a couple of used ones for free, because he's a top bloke.

The knead it stayed in place and only wept a bit. I'd do the same thing again if I was in the same position.

[gldgti]

i fixed my fuel tank with knead it once on my old mk1 and the repair is still there working fine....

on a side note, speaking of macguyver - We had a full complement of 5 in mum and dads mercedez 240D last year (badly worn shocks). Went over a big bump where there was also a lump in the road and bang, the sump hit the road. Pouring rain. Anyway, we pulled over and dad and I get out and peer under the car, we can see the oil coming out about as fast as it would if you undid the sump plug. So we run to the boot, find an old juice bottle, cut it open and start catching the oil. Then we start looking for something to repair the sump with... all we can find is some old 3.5mm vacuum hose, some bandaids, chewing gum, electrical tape. So, once all the oil had leaked out, we suffed the most part of the hole with rubber from the vacuum hose, kneaded some chewing gum into the gaps, covered it with a pultice of bandaids and then wrapped electrical tape all the way around the engine to hold it all in place. We put about 2L of oil back in it and drove 25km's back home

I think luck was on our side that day