Ok, so looking at pictures of some other 2.25D engines (like the one attached) I notice they have an oil filler neck at the left of the engine as you look at it from the front of the bonnet. Mine doesn't have this so I have been topping up the oil from the engine breather cap on top of the rocker cover. There seems to be nowhere else to put the oil into. Are there different evrsions of this engine with different oil fillers?
Some are filled through the rocker box. I think there is a proper mod to do this, believe I may have seen it on Paddocks web page. If you are filling through rocker box does this involve removing the small 7/16" a/f screw in the side? If not you may have the later modified one. Is the engine a 5 main bearing job? You can identify the 5 bearing engines they have diagonal ribs cast in the side of crankcases.
ronsealdeath
Sagging Member
5mb has filler on rocker and 3mb uses a filler neck thing, ones I have seen are anyway
Land Raver
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I've got 2 5mb Diesel engines 1980 / 81 and they both have the filler tube. Some by late petrol versions had a separate orange filler top on the rocker
dominicbeesley
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There seems to be a real mixture. Both my petrol 2.25s have the orange plastic oil cap on the rocker box (which is a real pain to get the thread started). I think its all to do with which flavour of crank case emissions control is fitted.
Marmaduke
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Yes pal, later diesels filled through the breather
Marmaduke
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It's that black stuff that drips on yer drive
Bobsticle
De Villes Advocaat
Used to.It's that black stuff that drips on yer drive
I must scrape some up and put it back sometime
If it was supposed to be in there, it wouldn't leak outUsed to.
I must scrape some up and put it back sometime