Albert Donaldson Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Does anyone have a photo of the purple pump installation on a K-series. I'm struggling a bit with the routing of the radiator bottom hose and the installation of the old type manual adjust tensioner.ThanksAlbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djg Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Photo to follow when I can get to the garage. The bottom rad hose is different for a dry sump. It goes straight back from the rad for about 50 mm then does a 90 degree turn straight up then turns back towards the engine again. It joins the steel pipe here. The steel pipe then only just clears the pulley by going over the top of the pulley and pump assembly. The steel pipe has a flattened side to allow it to clear the pulley. Hope that helps. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ric355 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 This one might help with the bottom hose.http://www.richmet.com/caterham/img_5036.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ric355 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Not sure if you can get the full size image directly on the site, but it's here anyway: http://www.richmet.com/caterham/img_5036.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ric355 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Here are a couple of the adjuster. I'm not entirely sure what you need to see here and sorry about the quality - it was difficult getting in with the car on the trailer and I had to use ropey 'selfie' mode to get a proper aim!http://www.richmet.com/caterham/IMG_20150610_185740.jpghttp://www.richmet.com/caterham/IMG_20150610_185751.jpgHTH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Donaldson Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 Thanks for taking the effort guys, the pictures really help.Albert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjblundell Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Hi Albert,I have a spare submarine pipe with the flattened section in perfect condition if you need one. PM me.CheersBill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Donaldson Posted June 13, 2015 Author Share Posted June 13, 2015 Thanks Bill appreciate but I have one actually two, the one that was fitted before the dry sump install appears exactly the same!I ended up moving the submarine over to the chassis rail as the tank I have is an ex duratec one and blocks the routing in the pics.Question about cam cover breathers:I can see in the archives there are some differing philosophies on this one (sealed and not sealed) and am trying to decide the best way to procede. I am running jenveys with airbox. At the moment I have the old apollo hole blanked off and the rear 2mm breather blanked. The front large breather goes to my external dry sump tank via a hose. The tank has 4 outlets, bottom goes to front of sump to feed internal oil pump. Top large goes to scavenge pump discharge. That leaves two at the top one to breather and one to catch tank. This seems to make sense to me. However on starting the engine and removing the oil filler cap on the cam cover I notice it is venting quite a lot of air/gas. Is this breather set up correct and is it to be expected to have this positive air pressure in the cam cover, I expected it to suck not blow? The external pump seems to be pumping into the external oil tank ok albeit in short spaced slugs at idle-is this behaviour normal?Thoughts appreciatedAlbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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