Re: [T3] Berg 11... 60 miles

["Tom Hansen" <DrSoWatt@worldnet.att.net>]

an oversight on both our parts... The Kit didn't include
> the red sealing nuts for the pump and since Its been close to 10 years
since I built a motor I didn't
> think about the fact that they should be there... Hence my leak,

Yes, an oversight on your part IMHO 'cuz you are the FINAL quality control
person. If it was a long block kit you got, the nuts should have been there
and that was a shipping dept. oversight. But the builder is always the final
QC type.

and apparently Bergs quality control
> on their gasket kits is non-existent and I *may* have used too thick a
gasket on the pump which would
> explain the low oil pressure, I'm sure however that I would have used the
thinnest in the kit and
> would NOT have used anything thick so this is a bit of a long shot.

I recently got a gasket set from a FLAPS and it contained a very thick oil
pump cover gasket. Berg didn't make that gasket set and I doubt that Berg
opens all the gasket sets they sell and checks them. I feel that Berg is
just as liable to get bad gaskets as I was due to the very limited sources
for these. Clyde will probably get good ones and purge the bad ones but
again you are the final quality control person on your engine. Berg also has
a customer base that will notify them of irregularities of just such obscure
things. I know I have before. The oil pump procedures are very well covered
and the gasket thickness is also well documented in all good reference books
that I still refer to after 30+ years of building engines.

 In a recent "RACER" magazine was a very good article about oil systems in
engines. Very worthwhile reading. It went on to say that the side clearance
in the pump has to be less than any other side clearance in the engine. This
makes the pump not be the loser of pressure.

  Clyde wasn't really calibrated on
> what the idle pressure should be with 20W oil anyway (he should be) but
indicated that 15-20 psi with
> the thicker oils was normal,

We run 20 wt. non det. in our race motors and only run a stock oil pressure
sender, no gauge. The idiot lite doesn't come on but our idle is around 1000
to 1100 rpm. My street engines usually have 10-15 psi at 800 rpm and VW says
right in their owners manual that a flickering oil lite at idle is OK. Isn't
their sender a 15-18 psi  one? all figures are for engines at operating
temp.

  Glad you're getting the de-clunking done. I had a 110 that was very
smooth. 1776, stock valve heads and 40 IDFs. a real fun engine a long time
ago in my bug.

Tom
airdoc@aircooled.net
http://home.att.net/~drsowatt/index.html




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