TD5 metal gasket puzzle

[canblogerra]

Who worries about left over parts? When I eat cray I expect to see more left over than when I started. Some call it the plate of the poor because of that but frankly it 's been a long time since I could afford that experience.

Anyway, having rebuilt my TD5 (almost ...) there's this gasket left over. See attached picture. Now normally I'd move on, but its been such a pristine and mammoth job up until now I 'd like to check all is as it seems - it'll be significantly harder to go back later.

I got top and bottom end gasket kits and don't see (or recall) what this one 's for. Have dredged through parts and workshop manual as patiently as I can for naught.

Any help to kick start my memory or improve my knowledge would be greatly appreciated.

... and keep truckin' ...

[alien]

Bit of a stab in the dark and a BUMP.

Looking at the shape is it possibly for between the block and the oil pump/brace assey?

[justinc]

Thats the gasket for the centrifugal oil filter (centrifuge filter) housing.

JC

[alien]

Thats the gasket for the centrifugal oil filter (centrifuge filter) housing.

JC

Um, don't listen to me;)

Thanks JC:)

[Rosscoe68]

looks more like the oil pump front gasket to me than the centrifugal housing gasket.

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[canblogerra]

Damm blast ...

Thanks for your help all and particularly Rosscoe 68 who 's on the money if Microcat is anything to go by.

Of course the motors in the car now ... dammmmm

Funny the old gasket isn't about, I don't recall ditching it. I suppose it must have come out if its between the pump and the block ...

I just checked the RAVE manual and it talks about an O-ring there, i.e. no mention of a gasket. Maybe some S/N's have an O-ring and others a gasket? Maybe I put a new O-ring there. I'll have to ponder all and decide where I go from here. I think I'll cast a sharp eye on the oil pressure when it starts, which would be in a few days, and take it from there.

[canblogerra]

I'm back to where I was this morning but with the gasket installed. Taking the sump off I knocked the oil pickup-filter. It fell apart along the glue line that runs around the circumference - where the wire mesh sits.

Being Sunday I thought I'd reglue it but what to use - looked like superglue had been used originally but sustained heat above 120C, like hot oil, is something superglue hates. Read the araldite blurb and saw it weakened above 60C too - by how much I didn't feel like guessing so I superglued it and put a couple of stainless M2 bolts with loctite through to hold it all together come what may (see photo).

Hope the effort to keep that little extra oil pressure gets me 1000's of kilometres further ... dammmmm

And thanks again for the lesson I had to have.