Recent content by Al2O3

Sounds like you've done a good job so far. Don't quote me on these figures until we've checked a manual, but the bottom of the clutch pedal has to be set at 5.5" away from the floor and there needs to be a 1mm gap at the end of the master cylinder rod for it to be set properly. Or pretty close...

Lynall means the seals in either the slave or master have broken down and are contaminating the fluid with rubber. Change both, but you might as well change the contaminated fluid while you're on.

Have you investigated the hand brake drum as @dag019 suggested? This would be an excellent initial thing to do and could well turn out to be the issue. I've got a 300Tdi, rebuilt the whole vehicle, rebuilt the engine and replaced the clutch. If I was thinking about replacing the clutch again the...

I can't remember that much movement back over, but you must be right. If the rod isn't dropping out it must be attached to the fork and that amount of movement must be correct.

How is the rod moving so much?

Pretty sure the LT77 fitted in a Discovery had an elongated bell housing compared to the Defender. If your gearbox is out of a Discovery and is now mated to a Defender 200Tdi then that might be the issue. Having said that I'd have thought you would have encountered engine mounting issues as the...

I did the same as Brown about 9 years ago, so possibly on Brown's advice! I remember a post about needing to get OEM seals. I did the front calipers as the rear ones were too far gone to get all the pistons out so had to buy new rear calipers. I've just replaced those rear calipers, but the...

I was thinking along those lines.

That sounds odd. Would it not turn over with the battery or the jump pack?

It was a pain. I spent yesterday afternoon trying to hammer that socket on the two seized bolts. Then went on Screwfix again and ordered a 5 pack of 1.5mm metal cutting discs for the angle grinder, because I only had stone cutting discs left. The Mrs picked them up on the way home from work. It...

Changed the rear discs and calipers as they were sh@gged. Three of the caliper bolts did the usual rounding off trick. Bought some of these from screwfix They took one off no bother, which sorted one caliper. However, couldn't get them to hammer on the remaining two bolt heads. Nothing for it...

Nothing on the landy today. Replaced the offside driveshaft and CV joint on my sons Citroen C3. It's quiet and smooth now :)

Classic 😀 Back in those days engines seemed to managed about 70K and then were knackered. Tastiest I had back then was a Mini 1275GT. Loved it 😎 Had the engine out of that a couple of times sorting the idler gear out. I remember heating the casing up on my mother's gas cooker to help knock the...

@Dub Siren Apologies from me for not spotting it was a 110, I just had a quick look at the thumbnail, didn't open it.

@Dub Siren I initially created the wrong link on that PADDOCK SPARES hyperlink above. I've changed it and added it to the capital letter link in this post too. This is the link to ALL EXHAUSTS SYSTEMS ON PADDOCKS