V6 MTDI Project

[darrenjlobb]

A donor pump turned up today, was in need of a 6 pot DI camplate, only have an IDI one atm, dont normally deal with 6 pot stuff! finding them is tricky as there mainly on lorrys etc, and as soon as you mension commericial vehicle, people seem to think its worth 500 times what its meant to be, but found a pump for spares on ebay, so took a punt, paid 40 quid for it, really just preying the camplate was still ok, as everything else can be replaced with my own bits anyways, turned up today, all the head bolts rounded out, 2 of the top hat bolts rounded out, so thought, "this is a good start", anyways drilled them all out, to reveal what i suspected, a water damaged pump, so had fingers crossed it hadnt pitted the plate to bad, sadly it has a bit, although not awfully, its not ideal, but I think its good enough for an initial pump, once its prooven might even just go and buy a brand new one with hi lift, but want to here it run first!

Some pictures of the pump, for anyone that hasnt seen a rusted out example, this is all to common i might add!






But nothing a bit of TLC cant sort for now!