I was a bit scrubby on the outside and most of the bolts had gone rusty so I bought a bolt kit from Ashcroft ....
£33 delivered.
Put the box on a bench and replaced the bolts one by one. I also got a gasket set so I could take off the covers, examine the insides, paint on some Blue Hylomar and refitted.
All went well until I got to the last M8x25 flanged bolt on the sump - it wasn't there, After searching around the floor etc for 10 mins I concluded it was missing from the kit in the first place.
The next problem was the bolts supplied for the PTO cover (FTC3178).
The old ones were an M10x35 hex head with a washer.
Ashcroft had sent an M10x40 flanged head. The problem I encoutered was that the shank was too long and it (or the runoff) bound on the thread in the bearing carrier before the cover was succesfully clamped.
When I looked it up it appears that pre 2007 it was an M10x35 and a plain washer and after 2007 it was the M10x40 flanged head.
I pointed this out to Ashcroft - the response I got was that they'd checked it out ar their end and it should fit.
Must be me then. I've forgotton how to fit a bolt in a threaded hole or i'm too stupid to do it right.
I bought some bolts off eBay (M10x30), job done.
