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Well I would agree with you entirely. The spiel from the raffling org said it was all "souped up" with a stage 2'd head but when I got in touch with the previous owner directly before me he said it was a standard 1275 Metro lump in a Morris Mini...

Well done you have narrowed down the fault on your 25+ year old engine to either the water pump or the PAS pump. If I were you I would treat the engine to an OEM quality replacement of both items which would do you for another 15 to 20+ years...

Yes, it's a good time to do it. I had wanted to do cambelt myself but new to this vehicle so don't want to stuff anything up on such a mission critical job. I've also developed a recent phobia of shearing bolts and I gather there's potential...

I checked all the pulleys yesterday again. Slight distortion in the water pump pulley (that could be the pulley itself), it seems to turn smoothly. Slight bearing friction on power steering. No sideways play on either. Also ran the engine...

Hi. What's the knack for running the water pump / PAS pump one belt at a time?

Sorry for your loss, but you're lucky it didn't spread to the house. I think buy back from the insurance, won't be much, when they see what's left. Fingers crossed, you find another one soon.

I'm not sure which part you mean. Is it the gutter bit at window base to body pls ? I can take a pic tomorrow 😊 She's really coming together now, and I'm sure is going to be really quite special 👍

…and does the gear position displayed on the instrument panel correspond exactly with the position of the gear lever i.e. D in D, N in N, R in R & P in P? Phil

Honestly I don’t know, I’d had thought you’d pay back what they paid you for the write off so you’d be at net zero. Not sure as first write off tbh. I don’t want to test it then find out I can’t buy it back and i’m a lot worse off. No the...

No problem. He’s not made his mind up what engine is going in but if it’s the diesel then yeah I’ll message you. 👍

Thanks mate ended up picking up a fairly cheap supposed runner however if the engine does come available please give me a shout I think I'll start hoarding them so I can be that smug git that goes "well I've got one for sale but they are pretty...

Can you take the insurance value and buy the wreck off them? Then at least you can salvage what is worthwhile. Are you sure the chassis is fecked? I can't help but think it'd take a heck of a lot of heat to do that. whatever, best of luck...

Helluva loss but at least you and any of your family weren’t hurt. That would have been a disaster. Hope you get sorted out there.

Cheers, I’ll be better when I’m sat in a working disco 2 TD5 LOL! Yea I’m good and the family, only was car and garage stuff so very lucky really. I do have contents insurance for the house so I’m thinking they will cover the stuff lost but...

It is fully insured, comp too but the cash value they’ll pay is around 2.2k and I obviously can’t strip a lot of anything off that has had all the new parts, front axle for example. That’s if they’ll actually cover it and not put it under...

Absolute Agony, hope you feel better soon, have to try and find some positives out of this at the end of the day it can be replaced you can’t. There may be more salvageable parts other than just the front end. House insurance might cover other...