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Cheers will go on the hunt again this weekend (seat mounting bolts seem to screw in nicely so might raid the scrappys for some more and grind them down)

Anyone know what thread and pitch the oil squirters are? took them to a few places and they cant ID them...

need 4 bolts to replace them asap...

Found the leak

Shaft for the OMP to throttle body had popped out and oil was flowing like a river from their... ripped the OMP off and put a blanking plate on, now just need to finish removing the oil jets and blank them off.

Got some pretty much new OMP lines if anyone is in need?

One oil squirter left to come out then the OMP is history





Knacked now...

The amount of oil coming out of the OMP is at best a trickle - it might be a split pipe - one of the oil metering lines - but could be a bad dowell leak.

How do i sort a dowell leak? is it a engine apart job?

Car has never had power steering so its not that...

Couldnt last night but will have a look tomorrow... hoping its just a knackered washer or gasket somewhere and not a big job (still got to put the new hubs on, sort the brakes and lines, re-fit the seats or fit my shiney leather\'s... then MOT time...)

Pics:





worst pics i have ever taken... defiantly coming from somewhere around the OMP as its pooling on the rack and subframe...

1987 EGI

i\'ll put a image up in a min

Not had chance to look properly as it happend while it was dark...

I think my OMP is leaking, had the car ideling on the drive (just fitted the new blanking plate for the air pump) and after 20 mins i saw a puddle form so shut the engine down (oil pressure was ok and theirs still oil in the sump).

The leak seems to be around the OMP / sump on the drivers side of the engine, is it common for the OMP to start leaking? if so can i just blank it off blank off all the hose\'s and run premix 2 stroke?

Determined to get the car on the road one of these days...

Weather was OK today so had a good play and diagnosed it...

The new blanking plate is leaking air

Good news is i have cut some 5mm ali to make a new one next weekend and the ali has already been machined flat so should have no issues this time... assuming it doesn\'t melt...

This is tough to diagnose like this but did you let the engine warm up or was it already warm in the vid as it did not sound like the cold start had operated,

If it was warm then the only thing to do is to start working back wards and see what you you may have done wrong

Around 12 /13 ago I made a manifold, removed the air pump etc on my EGI and it never made any difference to the running of the car other that it made lots of flame on overrun :chat

It was cold, but i had my foot resting slightly on the throttle as it started so it didn\'t kick in (might have had the clutch down as well I cant rember)

Wish the weather would cheer up so i could spend a full weekend on it without ending up in a iron lung...

Right.. finally got a blanking plate that\'s sealed and she still wont run properly

here\'s a vid



does anyone have any ideas how to re-set the idle? i have been fiddling today but made it worse (if i take the small screw out that has a nut round it, (holds one of the butterflys open i think) it will idle at 2k but that\'s just down to the throttle being open)...

was hoping to have it back on the road for my birthday on the 16th but its not looking likely now...

Right finally got a pic of that side of the engine:



every pic i have seen has had 2 actuators near their, mine doesnt and it doesnt look like they have been removed or blanked off.

got a better blanking plate on the way (3mm steel) so hopefully that will sort the issue.

Anyone got a guide as to what hoses can be blocked off ect? (would accept pages out of the service manual with ms paint blobs on them?)

Its still taxed until march so should be still on the road somewhere

not sure it looks like it was never their, i\'ll get better pics at the weekend, engine was re-built just before i got it so might have been part of that...

this shows the mk1 blanking plate and you can kind of see their isnt a actuator,



this is the check valve i have lost, is it needed?