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Piece of broken plastic bracket found in engine sump
Entabeni: 2006 Gen3 Pajero 3.2 DiD LWB GLS Auto 204,000km.

To remove cracked piston No2 I (eventually)removed the engine sump. When I washed it out I found in it a broken piece of plastic bracket --- photo attached. There seems to be no place in the crankcase or tappet cover from which it could have come. That leaves the cavity inside the timing cover which links the other two. Because the engine is still in the car I am anxious to avoid removing the latter.

Can anyone suggest where this thing came from?
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Re: Piece of broken plastic bracket found in engine sump
Yip. That looks like the float on the oil level sensor. Did you not maybe get oil light going on sometimes for no apparent reason before the strip?

I replaced my sensor many moons ago and posted a photo IIRC. Will search a bit.

CATS

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Re: Piece of broken plastic bracket found in engine sump
Here is my post on the matter after I traced the problem which I initially thought to be electronic. Found it eventually.

https://www.pajeroclub.co.za/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3604

CATS


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Re: Piece of broken plastic bracket found in engine sump
CATS wrote:Yip. That looks like the float on the oil level sensor. Did you not maybe get oil light going on sometimes for no apparent reason before the strip?

I replaced my sensor many moons ago and posted a photo IIRC. Will search a bit.

CATS

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From Entabeni,

Thanks a lot for your post, CATS! I had put the sump back with only 2 bolts to keep dust out. Took it out again this morning and removed the oil level sensor and, sure enough, the 'bracket' was actually half of the oil level warning float, as you predicted. However, it could not have worked anyway for the 'ground' contact of the device's switch is missing as shown in the attached photo! Perhaps I threw it out with the old oil? How it could have been broken is a mystery, for it sits in a very protected position in the sump. Thanks again.

Entabeni again: On closer examination of the sump oil level warning device I now believe it is not a simple switch contact that gives the warning. The float has at its centre a ring magnet. So the sensor is probably one of those small magnetic switches sealed in a glass tube to protect it from its environment, in this case sump oil. However, that doesn't explain its high R800 price!
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