Found something a bit odd under my bonnet yesterday ..
Missing oil filler cap, with accompanying oil-drenched engine bay (even more than usual), but (here's the weird part) oil level is above max. Either I've got a load of water or something in there (not sure how), or somebody's messing with me. Oil is due for a change, so no worries.

Popped down the breakers for a filler cap, and got one off a 3.2 Jag straight 6. If you haven't seen one of these, it's a MASSIVE engine, about 3ft long, could be a WWII aircraft motor. Don't know much about it, but it must have huge bores and next to no stroke to come out that size. Can't imagine what justified the length of crank you'd have in there.
Anyway, cap fits even better than orig, but could I have done better? I imagine any Austin/Leyland one would fit.

Pictures or it didn't happen

Brilliant!

New posh bit has moss on, so it's right at home with the lichens growing in the sun roofs

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I'm a fan of your new posh bit

Only criticism of your captions is that the "grotty-bit" should be landy-sized (well, if it's anything like mine anyway )

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Good work

Ps. My pair of '200 tdi discoveries have same filler caps but one is yellow & other is sorta grey, not posh though

Rich.

Zed. said:

I'm a fan of your new posh bit

Only criticism of your captions is that the "grotty-bit" should be landy-sized (well, if it's anything like mine anyway )

Meanwhile...

Good work

Ps. My pair of '200 tdi discoveries have same filler caps but one is yellow & other is sorta grey, not posh though

Rich.

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Sadly couldn't find a satellite picture of my parking spot to mark out the full extent of grot
I do like the yellow one. Found one one in the end, on a very knackered fender style 200 wasting away under the rusted hulk of what looks like some kind of quarrying machinery, but keeping it for a spare since the Jag one is a slightly tighter fit and it feels like my rocker cover's retaining notches are completely worn away. There are three or four potential replacement covers lying around, but my seal is not bad (this motor has the most unlikely good bits) so not inclined to change it.
Also found a nice yellow screenwash reservoir cap, which made a decent upgrade from the supplied bubblewrap-and-rubber-band arrangement, which was looking a bit tired