What did you do to your Rover today?

[SafeAirOne]

... fire it up and no oil pressure, after about 2 minutes of high idling a weird whirly whiney not quite screachy sound begins. shut it down. he replaced a purlator with a fram ph8a. mmm, de ja vu all over again as yogi would say.

Wow. Hopefully no permanent damage, though it sounds like metal-on-metal contact, so some damage must have been done. Still, sounds like you may have dodged the bullet on fatal damage!

[czenkov]

Yesterday - new carb to air filter pipe hose and aired up the tires. Went from 7.5 mpg to 14 mpg. Cold weather had let the tires down to abnormal levels.

My buddy wrapped some wiring that had a couple of bare areas.

Good times.

[badvibes]

Wow. Hopefully no permanent damage, though it sounds like metal-on-metal contact, so some damage must have been done. Still, sounds like you may have dodged the bullet on fatal damage!

Yeah no kidding. So like scott and others found out the spin on adapter they have is the one piece type that when mounted correctly puts the sending unit pointed more to the breakfast than the bulkhead.

My adapter is the 2 piece type, I think it gets referred to as a"pancake" type. I had it mounted so that the sending unit was pointed more to the bulkhead. Hearing the woes of others from this orientation, and not realizing that there are 2 types of spin on filter adapters, I took mine off and re-mounted it so that the sending unit is pointed more toward the radiator. Couldn't find a Fram PH8A filter at the time so I used a Puralator. Oil pressure the last 2 months with the Puralator has been fine. Oil pressure the last several years with the adapter mounted with the sending unit pointed more to the the bulkhead and using Fram PH8A filters had been fine.

So now today after replacing the seal on the right rear axle I decide to do a quick oil change. Take the Puralator filter off and put on a new PH8A. Finish the oil change and fire the truck up to see no pressure on the gauge, engine starts making a bad noise after just a moment running and so I shut it down. Put the old Puralator back on, fire the truck up again and no bad noise, oil pressure reads 40 lbs at idle.

So now I'm wondering if I should have left the adapter I have mounted so that the sending unit points more to the back of the motor and I messed up by changing the orientation. Does anybody else run the "pancake" type adapter and how is it oriented? What filters are you using? Anybody know the direction of flow of oil into the filter, does oil enter the filter or exit the filter thru the center opening on the filter?

Here's a pic of the type of adapter I have:



Here's a pic of the adapter scott has:



Here's a pic of the rear seal replacement job, all cleaned up, brakes re-installed and ready to put it all back together.

[Jim-ME]

It's been too cold to do much of anything mechanical to it so I drove it about 150 miles.
Jim

[siii8873]

On Saturday morning it was about 0 degF. Needed to get some insulation for the garage. Havn't driven the truck in cold weather so off I go to the barn. Took about 4 times to get her to start. Took about 5 minutes to get the cold start light to come on. Seemed like another 5 to get her to run without choke, see deflection on temp guage. While she was warming up I put the transfer case in neutral and put the main gear box in 2nd gear for a short time to move the oil a little before I got going.
After the warm up the truck ran great and plenty of heat for me. Did also lock in the hubs and drove arount the lot, about 8" of snow, ran great there also.

Bob

[ivarra]

Took the Christmas lights off

[4flattires]

I used the hitch mount to anchor a come-along winch and length of chain to a 30' cottonwood tree I needed to fell. I needed to guide the tree in the right direction and it landed perfectly between my fence and the neighbors. A couple degrees error either way....and...BOOM...'spensive repairs would be needed.

Score one for my excellent novice engineering skills and the Rovers steadiness.

Jeff

[SafeAirOne]

Anybody know the direction of flow of oil into the filter, does oil enter the filter or exit the filter thru the center opening on the filter?

Looking at this on the Fram site, it would appear that oil enters the filter around the circumference and exits through the center.

To keep on topic, this week I removed the valves and checked/removed the crankshaft and prepped the block and head for a trip to the machine shop for a good cleaning and inspection.

Interesting that most of the replies to this thread are maintenance-related as opposed to the much more desireable "driving and doing fun stuff"-related. Perhaps everyone does their heavy maintenance during the winter??

[Jeff Aronson]

Driving around in the snow and ice is routine use of my II-A, hardly worth mentioning - and I do have to earn a living through the Rover .

I, too, live in a state with an annual inspection ritual. Some of my maintenance is getting it ready to pass this week!

However, next month is the Maine Winter Romp, a chance to hit the trails and who-knows-what conditions in the woods of central Maine.

Jeff

[Les Parker]

So, after 2 hours of snow blowing and digging, the Airportable is now out of the back yard and getting ready for a new home


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