Thread: S1 2 litre Oil Pressure Adjuster - Confused, need help

Gentlemen,
I apologise in advance for so many questions. This is my first Land Rover S1 and I learning, but just fast enough.

todays puzzle for me is in relation to the Oil pressure Adjuster. The work shop Mall and the Parts manual both agree about what is require, but what came out of my 2 litre Spreadbore is slightly different.
The first image is the layout according to the Work Shop and Parts Manual.
This clearly shows a round home ball, and a plunger that is designed to insert part-way into the spring.
Oil-pressure-plunger.jpgOIl-pressurer-Ball.jpgcomplete-Unit.jpg

The first different is my plunger is hollow and the spring appears to be designed to insert into that hollow. from there I am not sure how it works. If I am showing the plunger the wrong way around, then the ball would ride against the slightly angled end of the plunger, which would not seem right. However, if it is shown correctly in my image, then the ball would sie in the slight recess, which makes sense, but the spring would be riding against he angle surface, what seems to have been carefully machined, and not accidentally.

I also received have 2 different Balls in the sealed container. So I am confused where the second one has come from.
One is a plain chrome ball as illustrated in the Parts manual but the other is hard plastic with a white dot on the top and an extruded section and clip feature that looks like is was design to clip onto the spring. The fit is perfect. Ball-image-2.jpg

I did not remove the adjuster from the engine, as this was done by my mechanic friend, and he put everything carefully into a sealed container along with the Oil Pump. . As a result, I am not sure if I have the wrong parts, updated parts or something perfectly OK, if I knew exactly the order in which they fit together.

I am hoping someone can recognise these odd parts and give me some advice on how to deal with them


regards and thanks.
Jeff

Originally Posted by jedwards

Gentlemen, many the ask for the help.

BSF hit the nail on the head with his second image. That is exactly what I have and that image tells me how to assemble it correctly.

That just leaves the question about where this strange ball-like part came from and where it belongs. Any thoughts?
Ball-image-2.jpgOIl-pressurer-Ball.jpg

regards Jeff

Jeff, is it too obvious to ask your supplier? Perhaps the mystery part was mispacked at some point.
Cheers Rob S