Oil Change Dilema

[kiwi]

First time changing the oil on the 19TZS and hit a problem straight away.

Cant get a sump plug spanner that fits

Second question is why is there two plugs on the sump of my 19TZS? Never seen that before both located at the rear of the sump not underneath of the sump as a typical BX.
Could the Aircon unit be why the sump is like that?

Second question is getting to the Oil Filter this thing in the picture was in the way.


Silver about the same size as a can of Redbull (sorry for that) has three pipes coming out 1, to Carbie 2, Fuel Return hose and third from the fuel filter.

I figure its for the fuel but no idea what it does?

The other thing is there is a little leak around the FDV unit any clues? Think read something on here about that and do I worry?

Of all the Bx owned this one has been full of mysterys.

[AlanS]

The sump plug takes an 8mm square socket and they are a bit hard to find over this way.
"Second" sump plug is in fact a blank off for the oil temp sender and the easiest way to drain the oil when one of these is there is just to either disconnect and remove the sender or if it has a blank, use the blank as the sump plug and just drain straight from there.



Alan S

[AndersDK]

The 3-stud fuel thingy is the early style fuel de-aireator found on many cars. Mainly to avoid engine stall caused by fuel vapour locks in hot climates.
The stud for the carb feed should therefore have a dipped pipe inside the can and the return pipe stud should have a restricted hole to keep up a small pressure in the can.

You may happily replace it by a nylon T-piece instead if you dont get hot summers in your area.

[kiwi]

Thanks guys

Alan, I will now go andborrow a 8mm square socket from the garge down the road if they have one.

Anders, Thanks for that something to keep in mind. It gets in the way of reaching the Oil Filter but since it may have a use will leave it in place for now. Could this also be useful for High altitude driving?

[toddao]

I don't have one of these square spanners, I improvised with a piece of square bar ( think it was the shaft of some sort of metal beating implement? I just had to grind the flattened edges square again) gripped in some Mole grips , perfect fit, worked well .. if you're desperate can always find something lying around the workshop!

[Brian]

Or use this...

Take off a door handle, pull out the square rod that connects the two handles together ..

"Perfect Fit"..

After use, "If it has not been twisted", replace back into the door handles, job done..

Keep one in your tool box..

[kiwi]

Bugga Brian got a load of them spare knocking around never gave them a thought

Well to late now borrowed one from the local garage who had a nice looking toolset of urm anyways the local Tool Shed as its called found me a set of sockets with the one I wanted included and since mine are cheap and nasty and falling apart ordered this set.

Cost nz$70 and apparently good quality, we shall see.

[AndersDK]

I have tried hot summers in DK - but never high altitudes as it does not exists here

It could as well be a precaution fitted to vehicles sold to countries with high altitude driving, as that will impose 2 problems worsing matters : higher engine load gives generally hotter engine bay and higher altitudes will lower the boiling point of the fuel.
Result is a much higher risc of fuel vapour locks.

[DavidRutherford]

Alternatively, if your sump plug is particularly well done up:

Get an M12 bolt, cut if off at about 1" long, and file/grind the shank square. You then have a tool that is made of fairly high strength steel, and uses a 19mm spanner to drive it.

Made loads over the years.

[kiwi]

I have tried hot summers in DK - but never high altitudes as it does not exists here

It could as well be a precaution fitted to vehicles sold to countries with high altitude driving, as that will impose 2 problems worsing matters : higher engine load gives generally hotter engine bay and higher altitudes will lower the boiling point of the fuel.
Result is a much higher risc of fuel vapour locks.

I am betting it was probably because of heat most likely since only a few of us muppets are stupid enough to live in places above 400m ASL. Let alone drive up to a Car Park located at 1600m. The highest any road goes is 1200m.

But like you say could explain why I dont get the power suck off at a certain point on the Mountain road I get with other cars.

Thanks for that info thats going to prove very interesting to see the face of the local mechanic who has no idea what it is for

David, to late I got myelf a new socket set.