Here's a weird one!!!!!

[pete roper]

OK, so every time you think you've seen it all a new one pops it's head up.

 

Took apart my mate's Mk IV Lemans and found that the sludge trap plug in the crank had loosened off and wound itself IN, destroying it's threads on the inward end so that it could wind past the end of the threads and block off the front gallery to the crankpin. Big ends were still fed with oil from the back but the shells were full of bits of disintegrated plug.

 

Yeah, I know it's not a V11 but your cranks have exactly the same plug and sludge trap. Don't worry, this isn't common! In thirty years of working on the poxy things it's the first time I've seen such an odd problem.

 

Only from Mandello

 

Pete