Dry Sump Oil Pipe Split Nut Solution

Mattp

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The car is being serviced, and Ive just been told that one of my oil pipes is split, near the reservoir, fingers crossed its this failure as opposed to the pipe going...

to fit this, does one cut the old nut off and slip this one round in place??
 

Zep

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The car is being serviced, and Ive just been told that one of my oil pipes is split, near the reservoir, fingers crossed its this failure as opposed to the pipe going...

to fit this, does one cut the old nut off and slip this one round in place??

Yes, exactly that. There is a picture on the hill engineering site that shows it.
 

Mattp

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Pricey nut!

My oil pipe was held on with half the original nut!!! Quite a scary sight, so that hundred pound nut is significantly cheaper than the £600 pipe!

Is the hill engineering but the Maverick one? If so, Thank you so much!! If not, than thanks for the hill link. Top work there
 

Zep

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The Hill Engineering website uses the picture from the top of this thread so I hope there is a link.
 

conaero

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So Hills have pinched MAVs idea and nicked the pic off our website!

I’ve taken evidence from the Hills site.
 

mjheathcote

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You can't really complain too much though, maybe it is a copy, but at least it's available to buy and to save owners many pounds if the original one fails.
 

Navcorr

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Split nuts have been around for a couple of hundred years - nothing new in the idea. The specific application maybe and the use of a picture - hmm, is it worth getting in a tiz over? They offer a substantial price reduction over the OP and Hill"s price is relative to alternative pipe replacement. Not the cost of manufacture - a decent machine shop could make these for relative peanuts.
 

Zep

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I agree it is a good thing that it is available. As it stands this didn’t go ahead, but they could at least not nick the picture!

Putting this sort of thing together takes a lot of time and effort, so I would understand if Mav was miffed.
 

mjheathcote

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A few years ago I came up with the design, and made a replacement fuse board for my Stag using modern blade fuses, instead of the original glass fuses.
Within a few weeks an independent specialist copied my idea, and was selling them commercially.
Nothing I could do, I wasn't in a position to batch make them for others, but some kind of recognition would have been nice!