Chipping away at my Stallion

[Red Stallion 74]

After a short hiatus waiting for my over priced gaskets to arrive, I'm back at it.

 

Looking to replace that oil gasket behind the filter mount. Do I have to pull off the flywheel yo access the bottom bolt?

[Handy Don 13,114]

27 minutes ago, Red Stallion said:

Do I have to pull off the flywheel yo access the bottom bolt?

Good question! When I had the P218’s tins off for cleaning I was awful glad there wasn’t any leakage at the joint!

[Red Stallion 74]

I think its inevitable that I have to pull the fly wheel... because why design something easy to maintain when instead we can put a bolt behind a thing notorious for seizing onto shafts in nearly every application around the world.

[Red Stallion 74]

I just dived in and went for it after a few squirts of penetrant, over cranked the harmonic puiler with a rattle gun, and it popped clean off!

 

Also meant I could give it a good scrub and clean up in behind there, and scrapped out the dust behind the fly wheel.

 

New oil seal, new filter, and now filter grommet!

[Red Stallion 74]

Starting the slow process of re-assembly, and regretting not having enough photos of how it all went together before hand.

 

I'll get some photos tomorrow with the shroud back on as it appears to have a massive gap near the oil filter between the two tins

[Red Stallion 74]

Can someone remind me as to where this earth gets attached?

[Red Stallion 74]

Oh and the shroud has definitely snugged up tighter now that the screw are in. But there is still a small gap, should I worry about that?

[lynnmor 7,498]

There is a notch in the bottom of the rubber to clear the drain tin, do you have that aligned correctly?

[Red Stallion 74]

30 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

There is a notch in the bottom of the rubber to clear the drain tin, do you have that aligned correctly?

YES! I know exactly what you mean, been trying to work out what the orientation is because its obviously supposed to be there.

[lynnmor 7,498]

1 hour ago, Red Stallion said:

Can someone remind me as to where this earth gets attached?

If that was added by a previous owner he may have wanted a better ground for the voltage regulator and that is a good idea.  The regulator gets its ground connection with the mounting bolt and yours appears to be mounted wrong.

[Red Stallion 74]

Can you elborate on that?

This is the picture of how it was mounted before and now.

 

[cleat 6,868]

This is how I install mine.

And you can see the ground wire on the mounting bolt as well.

 

Edited 22 hours ago by cleat

[Red Stallion 74]

Ripper! I can see that is earthed into that bolt holding the square whosit.

 

I ended up earthing it under the bolt that holds the shroud to engine block. That should be strong enough.

Edited 21 hours ago by Red Stallion

[lynnmor 7,498]

The heavy battery cable grounds the engine just fine.  The wire to the voltage regulator mounting bolt assures that rust, paint and dirt are bypassed and you have a good solid ground.  Yes, the voltage regulator case is part of the circuit.  The photo posted by Cleat shows the proper installation.

[Handy Don 13,114]

3 hours ago, lynnmor said:

The heavy battery cable grounds the engine just fine.  The wire to the voltage regulator mounting bolt assures that rust, paint and dirt are bypassed and you have a good solid ground.  Yes, the voltage regulator case is part of the circuit.  The photo posted by Cleat shows the proper installation.

12v is not enough to overcome poor connections anywhere in a complete circuit. That includes grounds! 

[Red Stallion 74]

8 hours ago, lynnmor said:

The heavy battery cable grounds the engine just fine.  The wire to the voltage regulator mounting bolt assures that rust, paint and dirt are bypassed and you have a good solid ground.  Yes, the voltage regulator case is part of the circuit.  The photo posted by Cleat shows the proper installation.

 

Roger that...

I thought you meant my actual regulator was installed incorrectly (and I was confusing the regulator with the distributor), which didn't make a lot of sense because I haven't taken it out.

After seeing Cleat's photos, I checked my photos again, and I've taken that screw out at some point, which suggests that I did indeed have it wired correctly before dismantling it all.

Edited 3 hours ago by Red Stallion