#LOTUS 907 WATER PUMP DRIVER#

Incidentally, on the subject of sumps, the sump drain plug is a bog-standard plumbing fitment! Something like a 1/2' bsp blanking plug, costs a quid or so from B&Q, about a tenner from Lotus. Needless to say, some bits then found their way into the degreaser and came out a little cleaner: Once separated, I removed the clutch and flywheel, then hoisted the engine up and bolted it to the engine stand, so I could remove the main bearing ladder and crankshaft. Nobody told me the transmission weighs 61Kg, and the engine even stripped this far must be somewhere similar. Next I had to split the engine and box, and what a gut-buster THAT was. Yes, I know: the book says use cylinder liner clamps! Believe me, those liners are going nowhere. Said above, I disconnected the gas struts and got someone to hold the tailgate out of the way while I pumped the crane up. The chassis, to lash a rope round the engine and 'box and hoist it out. I resorted to borrowing a mate's 2-ton long-reach engine crane, and I can safely say that if you have an Esprit or a TVR wedge, one of these should be high on your shopping list!Д®verything's stripped off the Esprit engine and the mountings unbolted from :-D On the early Esprit the driveshaft acted as the top suspension link: luckily by the time the S3 came along some sense had been applied and a top link had been added you can see it hiding behind the shock absorber. Planning a rear suspension rebuild once the engine and 'box are out of the Just as well, given the cost of new ones.! Only rusted due to lack of use, so they'll be going back on. :( Luckily these discs haven't done many miles and are The transmission (and hence the chassis) in order to remove the discs.! YouД¬an change the pads in 10 minutes, but it looks like you need 10 bloody hours toД¬hange the discs. Transmission (and are as tight as buggery). The transmission mountings, but the bolt heads are between the mounting and the Way, then decided I may as well strip the brake discs off as well, to clean themД¬ome off because the caliper carriers are in the way. I disconnected the driveshafts and swung the calipers out of the Gearbox, so a couple of nights back I braved the chill and crawled underneath (Edit: Actually, it was possible without removing the tailgate I just disconnected the gas rams and got an assistant to hold the tailgate vertical while I pulled the engine and box out!)Дecided I may as well do the job properly and take the engine out with the not only that, but the tailgate needs to come off and I couldn'tДo it by myself. So I moved stuff round and dragged theД¬rane out, and that was when I realised that the jib wasn't going to be longД®nough. Rebuild it's a shame so much of it was put back together with siliconД®sprit stripping bits off willy-nilly, I'd got to the stage where I thought I The big end shells it seems the engine may have had a recent (in mileage terms) The crank bearings are all in very good shape: by the look of Transmission: with the engine mountings removed I'm hoping the block will slideДЇar enough forward to disengage it from the input shaft and then it can be My plan is to see if it can be done without disturbing the have been powdercoated:ДЄlso see here for more details on DIY powdercoating!ДЄnd cam housings await further attention, but in essence I'm just about ready to Possible, components have been stripped, degreased and bead-blasted. Housing, water pump, oil cooler, clutch slave cylinder and crank pulley. At this time I've removed the alternator, distributor, starter, auxiliary I'd got the head and sump off and the pistons out, so there wasn't a lot The car running to sell, but if I decided to keep it there'd always be a naggingДoubt.! With nothing to lose I decided to continue stripping theД®ngine. One small point is that the Esprit engine hadДЄ cross-drilled crank where the Eclat didn't, perhaps not important just to get but at least theД®ngine would be a known quantity. Gaskets to do a rebuild, it's going to be hundreds of ВЈВЈВЈ. Even so, by the time you add in all the seals and I spoke to a guy who deals in Lotus spares he offered me an ex-Eclat 2.2ДЇor ВЈ800 but also said he could supply new pistons and liners for less than the Several months on and the Esprit is still awaiting a new Has stood for about two months now while I try to decide the best way to fix Nothing found so I dropped the sump and pulled the pistons and found that largeД¬hunks of the thrust side of numbers 1 and 2 pistons had disintegrated. I told him I'd fix it and get backД¬utting a story short I did a compression test, suspected aД«lown head gasket or similar silliness so I pulled the cylinder head off. That the Esprit seemed to be running badly. So I took him out for a spin and I noticed

#LOTUS 907 WATER PUMP DRIVER#

PISTON BROKE! (and that's just the driver o)Д«ack in 2005 I'd finally decided to part with theД®sprit so I could concentrate on the TVR and I had a local guy who'd expressed a

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