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Thanks, I'd better check we have sparks then. It's always possible I've forgotten to re-connect one of the connectors. I checked the dizzy and see what you mean by the screws being offset.

I'm tempted to drill a couple of holes in the bottom of the cubby box to prevent it filling with water and rotting my recovery rope.

Remove the inner door-skin and give the lock a thorough dousing with WD40. I was amazed at the difference this had on my old Discovery.

Pulled the cover from the cambelt cover just now and checked the timing alignment. With the cams lined up correctly with the mark on the cover the crankshaft pulley is just slightly to the right of the mark on the casing. Would this be enough to cause it not to fire? I've assembled the...

Good piece in the October 2007 edition of Car Mechanics on head gasket replacement on the K1.8 as well. Back issues available from their website.

Yes, that's exactly what I did in the end. Always possible I didn't get it quite lined up though, or the crank pulley had moved a bit. Don't suppose you're any good at roofing, are you? ;)

This sounds so like my present position that it's spooky! I have just finished rebuilding the engine also, after HGF, and whilst she turns over she won't catch. Replaced all the gaskets, etc etc. My first thought was that I've got the cambelt off by one tooth on one of the camshafts but...

Well, the head's gorn off to Glasgow for skimming today. That's a 250 mile round trip by car so I entrusted it to Royal Mail instead. Hopefully get it back early next week and I can start putting the whole thing back together again. At just over 18 kilos it cost £13.33 Standard Parcels...

The 5-wire motor is for the driver's door lock, I think. The 2-wire motors are for the other doors and tailgate. Going from memory the colours were different but easy enough to match up to the wiring diagram in the Haynes 'Book of Lies'. I'm afraid I'm a bit vague as I don't have the Disco...

These are the ones I used on my Discovery: Maplin > central locking Direct replacements; worked a treat and cost a fraction of the dealer price.

Headgaskets aside, maybe the door lock actuators are feeling a bit tired? Had this problem on my old V8i Discovery. New (cheap) motors fixed it.

You mean there's a difference? ! You can tell I work for NASA, eh? ;)

£30 ? Ouch! Bit steep for something that probably takes 5 minutes to do. Ah well. As regards unlocking, if you press mine once it unlocks the drivers door. Press it again and it unlocks the other doors. Press and hold and the rear window comes down. Hope that helps.

0.000 to 0.075 according to the Good Book.

Well they all look ok. Most just proud of the block, and one just about level, but none lower. I quite like "waarpage". Has a nice rural Suffolk sound to it :)

Yeah, you're probably right. Just a real pain having to drive to Glasgow with it. What's the procedure for checking the liners height? Straight edge and feeler guages?

With regards to the key fobs, you can buy these quite cheaply on Ebay but they need re-programming to your particular vehicle unless you buy them with the matching ECU, in which case you need to take it along to a dealer to do it, probably for some exhorbitant sum.

Yes, but presumably before the MLS gasket was introduced.

As some of the regulars here may recall, my Freelander blew it's headgasket just before Christmas but due to illness I've been unable to do much about it till recently. Anyhow, have been stripping the engine bit by bit over the last couple of weeks and have finally gotten to the point of...

Posted 1st class this afternoon. Fingers crossed you'll get them tomorrow. Found a virtually new air filter as well so stuffed that in, too.