Matt Lewis

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All the 4wd pump are now made in house, no more billet type gone back to cast

Matt

Azrael

I have billet one I think, from Mike R, should I be worried?

Fiecos Dan

Hi Andy,


is this one of the orginal design's? or the newer Wedge blank?

Did you send it back to Cosworth this time?



Hello.

How long ago did you buy it? and when did it fail? 2wd or 4wd?

andrewg

think it was welded then machined back, i just re welded it and fitted it back in

Daxcossie

4WD billet type purchased from PJ Motorsport at the end of last year. Failed after less than 6 months (250 miles).

Ive now got another Billet type unit installed, which Cosworth assured me would be ok..............We will see.

Azrael

Mine has done almost 1000km's so far, but iit's running-in milage. We will see.

Fiecos Dan

So same design as your 1st one that failed.


Andy,
could you do everyone a favour, and give Cosworth a call, and tell then your've had 2 failures.
And you might even get 2 new one out of them for your trouble's, thats the least they should do.




The newer type come out may 2008, but Cosworth started to wedge the plug just after Andy started this post.

so your 1 that failed, Most of been the one of the weak 1st batch?

andrewg

was just looking at a pump i had on the shelf and you can see the blank has a crack already and also the weld is a bit poris

Azrael

I think I will try get a new one then

Current ones are supposed to be OK, right? Or am I getting things wrong?

Andreas

Just recieved some of the new design pump.

JTECH James

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goodluck!

id use wing nuts on the sump if i were you

cn-racing

here is my pump. it was brand new this summer..

wes

This pump came out of my 1200 mile engine (that had dropped a valve so the engine was doomed anyway ), it's only cracked along the bottom so looks like the wedge design has only half fixed the problem that their first batch had:

Fiecos Dan

When was your pump brought Wes?

wes

8th May 2008, a few days before you got your one looking back at page 5 of this post! Has yours been OK? I had noticed that I was getting a slight tapping noise at idle (sounded like a lifter was going) when the oil was hot a few days before my valve dropped, but I put this down to the oil itself as it went away when it cooled down abit, was going to change the oil to see if it was that but I didn't get a chance to and by what I've found it wouldn't have made any difference anyway.

paddyrs

so is the pumps ok now?

andy130

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yes there cast made now they seam to be holding up ok

Fiecos Dan

The pump is what brought my rebuild to a stop, But since i got the 1st one and heard of issue's i waited for a new design one, but since then i have not got the car back together yet, so my pumps still in the box.

paddyrs

whats the ggr pump like?

wes

I'm going to take this pump to Cosworth and see what they have to say, I may just use a hgh pressure pinto pump now as i have oil squirters anyway. Still a major pain in the arse though!

I think this is the latest cosworth design of the pump i have, not heard anything about them other than they are cast now rather than billet.

Fiecos Dan

Yeah, take it back to Cosworth, Let them see whats happened, As its not on really.