When I bought the car I was told that the engine was in good condition. I looked at the engine closely and found that the bolts on the cylinder head were loose. Well, I took the head off and found that wasn't the case at all. I will get into the engine details when I start putting it back together. But tonight I was working on the engine compartment. I removed the oil injector and tank. I cleaned out the tank and found that I needed to make new cork gaskets. I found 1/8 cork gasket material by the roll at my local auto parts store. Using the cover and the oiling body itself as a template I made two gaskets that will work very well.
Something else that I found interesting with the oil injector. Was that a previous owner made spacers to go into the bracket and the whole oil injector was on the left side of the bracket. Basically moving it over to the left about 3 inches. The outlet for the oil meter also had a 90 degree bend in it so that the tube would be straight. I am going to leave it this way because, I'm sure the owner found this to be a lot better solution for putting oil into the tank. The car has 38,000 miles which is a ton for a micro car. Thinking that the car has a top speed of 55mph the minimum amout of hours spent driving the car would be over 690 hours.
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