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Old 01-05-2021, 01:51 PM   #1
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Default I'd never have dreamt this would be possible.

I started cleaning the oil pump for the Old 59 Flatty and i couldn't believe what I found.

I would have thought the oil pump would have been the last thing to have rotted out.

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Old 01-05-2021, 02:02 PM   #2
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Now that is crusty! Must have been some acidic sludge in the bottom of that engine. How does the oil pan look?
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Old 01-05-2021, 02:09 PM   #3
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Wow! That looks unreal. How can oil do that?
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Old 01-05-2021, 02:09 PM   #4
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All condensation or other water ends up at the lowest level and the oil stays on top of it. Look carefully for cracks.
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Old 01-05-2021, 02:12 PM   #5
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What’s a 59 Flatty?
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Old 01-05-2021, 02:41 PM   #6
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59 series post ww2 flatty. It might be significant that the motor was stored upside down or on it's side. The oil pan is next on the list for a close inspection. There is no sign of similar erosion anywhere else (I hope).
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Old 01-05-2021, 02:48 PM   #7
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Mart just use some JB weld epoxy to cover over those holes it will be good as new.
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Mart,

It seems you have a fetish for "crust"....
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Old 01-05-2021, 03:21 PM   #9
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Mart just use some JB weld epoxy to cover over those holes it will be good as new.
LOL! Yes, sir.
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Old 01-05-2021, 03:29 PM   #10
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Mart, let's face it. The stuff you open up are the ones most people just walk past. And then you go and post a video of it zooming up a hill with a bunch of high dollar(high pound?) cars. Nice oil pump by the way.
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Old 01-05-2021, 04:48 PM   #11
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I just went and had an initial scrape about in the bottom of the oil pan. It has some interesting sludgy deposits but luckily and hopefully there doesn't appear to be any corrosion That'll be tomorrow's job, to clean that up. Again, luckily I do have an oil pump I can put in it.
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Old 01-05-2021, 05:15 PM   #12
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i was once trying to free up a stuck w2 halftrack motor. crowbar on the flywheel, bang! she let loose then felt fine. after tear down i found the oil pump was all that was stuck, and i had sherd off the drive forcing it to turn. oil pan was full of water
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Old 01-06-2021, 06:10 PM   #13
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Hey Mart, how about a video of you brazing up that pump.
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