I've been trying to fix my oil leak from my Oil Metering Pump for a while now, and found a write up on where the seals are that need to be replaced. Well, I got it all apart, found the seals, and am currently waiting on them, but the only problem I have is I can't put it back together!! I've got some pieces down on how to put them back in, but I can't quite figure out the order, certain parts. I've been using this picture to try to figure it out...

But it just isn't working, apparently. If anybody has a good write up on how to put it all back together or anything, I'd appreciate it. The only thing the right up really said was what to replace, not how/what to take off, and putting back together. It did say "remember where things went" but I've had this thing apart for a week, and there is no way in hell I could remember that \=.

 

Nobody? Come on..someone has to have rebuilt this by now?

 

you took the whole thing apart like in that photo?

 

Yup...here is where I'm at. I've got a few pieces together the way they should, I just can't put them inside the body correctly...it's just weird.

 

this might help...

https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-specific-1986-1992-17/rebuilding-my-s4-oil-metering-pump-521169/

 

That's what I was originally using to find the seals. But since I've found the seals, I have no clue how to get it all back together, haha...oh boy. :P

 

1.Put the lever assy into the body first. I assume you know to put the o'ring on the shat and can figure out how to put the spring on right.

2. Then install the guts in the order you have it in your picture.

3.Put the forward endplate on.

4. Then install the drive gear.

5. Then the aft end cap.

Fwd and aft refer to body of the omp when installed on the engine. The lever end is the aft end.

 

Well, that diagram helps a bit. Now that spring has me baffled for some reason. I tried putting that bad together, but I can't figure it out. maybe I'll have to take my OTHER one off and look at it and see how that's on there.....oh boy. lol.

 

Well, I got it all together, luckily. Gotta use RTV on the seal that would attach to the block. I'm guessing putting some oil in the unit before attaching it is good...so things move smooth?

And for the RTV, I'm sure it's obvious, but we don't want any getting into the engine, right?

 

About the spring. What I do is put the lever all the way in. Then pull it out enough so the lever can be rotater clockwise and still clear the stop pin. Once wound up you press the lever back in the body. The spring has a tendency to get under that *cover* that is over the o'ring and I use a scribe/whatever is handy to pull the spring out from under that cover.

Hard to explain. Sorta gotta be there to understand.

 

Yeah amazingly the spring is on there correctly *At least it springs the lever back, so we'll call it good!"

Still trying to get the thing on my car...it was pouring today

 

Gentlemen, mind if I update kungfuroy's write-up with this bit of collaborative info (CyberPitz's photo and HAILER's insight)? It seems like information that should be in one place.

 

I was thinking about making a write up that actually included what pieces you are to take out, and where the seals go, and putting it back together...

So Steve, if you want to do it, hoorah go for it.

 

Thanks! I added a new section to the write-up:
http://howto.globalvicinity.com/gv_w...=186&co=1&vi=1

I figure it's better to have one article the community can focus on rather than multiple parallel articles that each differ slightly and clutter searches. So, please modify the article and make it better! That way the library can be as helpful to the community as possible.

I'll add the ability to see a list of who's contributed to an article, not just who originally authored it, since significant improvements can be made by others, and their contributions shouldn't go unnoticed. In the meantime, I have a manual link back here giving you and HAILERS credit.

 

Starting now, if anyone modifies an article on the GV site, their name gets added to that article's contributor list.

edit: Since anyone can improve any article, this makes sense: if I improve someone else's article, I want credit, and if I author an article, I want people to know the work isn't just mine once someone gets their grubby hands on it.

Yup.