Brand new oil pump fitted. Amazing pressure!

[cliolord]

After having borderline pressures, Stan kindly delivered in person an oil pump to me today which I have now fitted. On my way back from work, oil pressure was excellent am very happy.

80*C 3,000rpm @ 4bar!!
80*C 3,500rpm @ 4.2Bar!!

Idle at 80*C gives me exactly 1Bar but the guage. Thanks for the help getting the pump Craig, once again you are a total legend!

[stan]

Always a pleasure!

At least someone gained from my wasted trip to Bristol :lol:

[cliolord]

:lol: i was getting fed up of wasting all my good oil aswell but now shes nice and healthy :)

[stan]

Glad its ok :D

[MAXIBOY]

cool. glad it worked out. :D fitted a brand new one to mine.

[DaveH]

Nice one mate. How much are brand new oil pumps then? I may fit one when i do my minor rebuild

[MAXIBOY]

ask stan. mine was 130 quid.

[Jamie.]

yeh that is a good result! Wouldnt mind one myself...

[MAXIBOY]

cliolord i would advise fitting a magnetic sump plug also.

[jay s]

had a look on dialogys and it says
77 00 866 121 PUMP OIL 131.02 ---3 x 1
think thats from 2003 tho so price might have goon up a little, plus u need to add vat i think...... still not to bad as it does i very important job

[Daz.]

where is the oil pump on an f7? are they an ish job to fit?

[MAXIBOY]

in the sump.

[DaveH]

Easy enough if the engines out, can still do it with engine in but just awkward getting sump on/off.

[cliolord]

where is the oil pump on an f7? are they an ish job to fit?

Not to bad, I've done it a few times in my life and not just on clio's. In the sump...Took me about 3 hours to do today most of that time was preping the oil pump and sump/block surface for resealing. I found it much easier to leave the sub frame where it is and;

-Remove Top engine mount (o/s), Dog bone mount (and slacken R19 mount if fitted) obviously support engine
-Remove downpipe
-Remove o/s/r wheel and tie bar (sub frame to wheel arch bar - improves access)
-DRAIN OIL :lol:
-Remove 4X gearbox bell housing lower bolts and thread
-Jack engine up to reasonable limit
-Remove all the T40 bolts (have fun!)
-Leaver engine towards passenger side (I did this by applying pressure to a leaver bar that was located between the top of the wheel arch and the crank pulley bolt) and remove sump at the same time.

Oil pump is on the drivers side under plastic baffles. Remove 4XT30's for first cover and then remove 4X10mm bolts. Twist the oil pump and pull off spline

[DaveH]

Thats the way i did it mate except i took the o/s/F wheel off instead lol(small things and small minds), the hardest torx bolt to get to at the rear corner rounded too

[Clio_GTT]

Thats the way i did it mate except i took the o/s/F wheel off instead lol(small things and small minds), the hardest torx bolt to get to at the rear corner rounded too

Don't u just love the chocolate torx bolts they use :roll:

[Danny-ACE!]

Thats the way i did it mate except i took the o/s/F wheel off instead lol(small things and small minds), the hardest torx bolt to get to at the rear corner rounded too

Don't u just love the chocolate torx bolts they use :roll:


I had to air chissel 4 of mine off when I did mine! :D

[DaveH]

Thats the way i did it mate except i took the o/s/F wheel off instead lol(small things and small minds), the hardest torx bolt to get to at the rear corner rounded too

Don't u just love the chocolate torx bolts they use :roll:


I had to air chissel 4 of mine off when I did mine! :D

Best bit was id already had the bolts out and back in once as id put new big end bearings on to realise they were the wrong size, it was when i took it off again that it rounded so i cant even blame it on the previous d*ck head that over-tightened them :lol:

[cliolord]

lol yeah stupid crap. I used the air gun on the bolts I could get to and they all came off. Torque is 25nm iirc but dont quote me on that. The biggest pain in the ass was the first time I had to drop the sump, 1 of the T40's that sit in the recess near the bell housing rounded and seriously, you wouldn't have wanted to hear the naughty words I used then, god damn :lol: I drilled it out, only took about 10min's 8)