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Brilliant thank you :-)

Cheers - I was just checking just in case there was some awkwardness to it which I was unaware of - thank you

No answers ??? anyone ?

Morning all I am no expert mechanic but how easy is it to change the rotor arm on a K series engine ? Is it just a case of removing then air filter housing, unscrewing the distributor cap and pulling out the old rotor arm ? Or is it a bit more complicated than that ? I am hoping its a 10...

Thank you all for your replies I am going to investigate tonight :-)

I get that the distributer would make the car play up a bit but would that make smoke / steam come out of the exhaust from time to time though David ?

Its S Reg 1.8 pettol K series so I think its 1998, Hmmm individual things I think but don't quote me.

Cheers David Many thanks for your reply, my gut feeling is that its unburned fuel so I will check the plugs tonight, hopefully it will be a dodgy plug. I really hope its not head gasket again :-( but as I said the problem is intermittent which is odd.

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Yes it seems to be using coolant more than usual, what are you guys thinking ?

Hi all I have a petrol Freelander 1 K-Series, My head gasket was done a few months ago and until recently the car was going well, however, now and again if I am sitting in traffic it will suddenly not tick over very well and sound as if its going to stall but it doesn't. When this happens if I...

Thanks Nodge, it was only done on Monday and the cap was on but just not on correctly so hopefully no contaminate got in there. Many thanks for your reply. Cheers - Dave

Hi All Still loving reading the forums. Silly question... if the brake fluid reservoir cap is not on correctly will it affect my brakes ? I recently had a rear fluid leak and noticed just now the garage hadn't put the fluid cap back on correctly. What does everyone think ? Kind regards from...

Ah 10mm difference, I will fit the one I bought today from Eurocar parts but if they go again in the next 9 months I will try the other ones. Cheers for the link.

Ah I didn't realise there were 2 different sizes either - I will have to google it. When I ordered the part from Europarts there was only one size available. I assume the size difference if only a few mm's ??