Repairing your damaged alloy sump (for the interim)

[Silver dub]

dam thats bad luck preeny (and Josh).

Did it do any damage to the rear axle?

[GoLfMan]

I've got 3 sumps coming if you need one... Cheap cheap too.

Let me know if you need (heh, or "knead" ) one dude.

Sadly too late man. I need my car for uni so I had to get a new one.

[Preen59]

dam thats bad luck preeny (and Josh).

Did it do any damage to the rear axle?

It's all good, dude. Fixed for now. Heck, i'm driving it to Sydney in the morning! hahaha.

The block clipped the shackle bolts on the trailing arm and burred the end up on one of them, but that's about it. Thankfully it didn't kick up and bust a fuel line or anything..

Sadly too late man. I need my car for uni so I had to get a new one.

All good dude.

[Preen59]

Fitted my new sump today.

FYI, the US spec sumps aren't the same. Although, i have a feeling this is an FSI sump.. So it might be that the FSI sumps are different to the TDI sumps.



It doesn't have the little ears on the back side for the windage tray.. So i had to trim the windage tray down to fit. Nothing a few minutes with a hacksaw and a file couldn't sort out though.

[Lams]

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

[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