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    Quote Originally Posted by Motu
    Read my earlier post - I don't know when the front drive BMC power unit finaly stopped production,but 35 yrs would be close.In 1959 engine oils were nowhere near up to todays standard.The old Mini/1100/1300/1800/Maxi/Princess/Tasman/Kimberly/Allegro/Metro (not to mention MG,Riley and Wolseley variants)did pretty well I think.
    Regular oil changes were critical, remember how the idler gear bearings would chop out their alloy housing, then the fragments would destroy the oil pump and the main and rod bearings would die from lack of oil pressure?
    Them were the days.
    Lou

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    Quote Originally Posted by AMPS
    Regular oil changes were critical, remember how the idler gear bearings would chop out their alloy housing, then the fragments would destroy the oil pump and the main and rod bearings would die from lack of oil pressure?
    Nope.

    Sounds like good ole British engineering to me...
    Quote Originally Posted by The Lou at the AMPS
    Them were the days.
    Did they have days in them days?

    I learned to drive in an AUstin 1800 LandCrab, replaced with a Maxi. Nice roomy cars, good for touring, blah blah blah.
    My first car was a Morris Minor - 1 year older'n me. Most fun I've ever had in/with a car.

    Oh yeah:
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    Quote Originally Posted by AMPS
    Regular oil changes were critical, remember how the idler gear bearings would chop out their alloy housing, then the fragments would destroy the oil pump and the main and rod bearings would die from lack of oil pressure?
    Them were the days.
    Lou
    But they still took a hell of a lot of abuse,and many would go years without an oil change,they blew head gaskets and burnt valves so much that a BMC was a permanent fixture in most workshops for 40yrs,a creamy soup in the trans,just change the oil and out it goes again.Manys the time I've pulled the magnetic drain plug out and found a final drive gear tooth on the end.Pulling a BMC power unit out with a chain block from the roof beams and splitting it on the floor was done every couple of months,these days most mechanics wouldn't know how it's done.

    You had to pull the engine to do a clutch on the 1800 landcrab,but with that power unit in a Princess you could do it inplace.Anyway - a straight 30 weight oil from 1962 was up to the job.
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