First ride of shame

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RallyTog

RallyTog

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Hi eveyone,
Bess had her first ride of shame on Tuesday evening, the clutch cylinder let go so we had to have a piggy back from KD Bros to 4Xfortyone in Horbury. Fistly what in the name of heaven possessed BMW engineers to fit the clutch cylinder in the gearbox on the TD4 engine?
Anyhoo picked her back up today, new clutch and cylinder, plus new brake pipes and another twelve month ticket.
Bess has now had four new tyres, front brake discs, back brake drum rebuild and a new clutch and accessories, the total cost is now in excess of the purchase price but hopefully all the big jobs apart from the VCU are done.
Time to play hopefully
 
RallyTog said:
Fistly what in the name of heaven possessed BMW engineers to fit the clutch cylinder in the gearbox on the TD4 engine?
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It's standard practice to use concentric clutch release bearings these days, the FL1 was just being modern. ;)
PRO said:
wait until you see what the rover engineers did on kv6 and thermostat :)
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Rover engineers didn't, it was the bean counters at BMW that replaced the alloy thermostat housing that Rover used, swapping it with the same plastic crap that goes on all BMW engines. ;)
 
Auch, did not know that but Wikipedia confirms.
Lucky they did not fit one of their petrol engines with valvetronic, vanos and all. Would outperform the K series on issues for sure.
 
Jayridium said:
For a really top hand of gremlin, imagine they added vanos and valvetronic TO THE K SERIES o_O
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Rover had there own VVC K series, that was better than the Vanos system that BMW developed. It was more powerful for its size that the BMW offering, and more reliable at the same time. However the Rover VVC engine was said to be very expensive to build, more expensive than the KV6 apparently. I still think a VVC engine FL1 would be a lovely vehicle to drive, and probably pretty fast too.
 
Were I going for a parts bin special freelander build, it would be one of the rover turbo engines... But my comment was regarding the K series (especially in freelanders) inclination to view head gaskets as a service item, kind of like how disco 1's view sills, boot floor and back body cross member as a routine maintenance procedure. PS I've done all the above procedures - granted the K-series engines I've worked on were in a rover not a hippo)
 
While on the subject of changing engines and bits, can any of the MGF steptronic gearbox range fit the F1?
There is a cracking 1.8 G4 in Orange for sale near me, but I can't live without an auto !
 
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