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Right, I'm *STILL* at war with ACE, and starting to lose the will to live I have a design development engineering block Pump works. plenty of fluid activity. New 3/8" hydraulic hoses to the front, original hard lines to the back Filter is clean (though does seem to catch metal filings from...

Right, because I'm a lunatic and masochist, I'm attempting to recommission ACE on my disco. Got a good used rebuilt ACE block, working pump. Fixed all the pipes and have no leaks, lots of flow in the header tank. Buuut, as soon as I hit about 10mph, I get the red ACE light and the bings...

Right, the Disco is slowly getting closer to becoming a bonfire. Had no interior lights for a while, which is no real drama and no bother as far as I'm concerned. A few weeks ago the main beam telltale light stopped working, sometimes showing up dull, but mostly nothing. This week, the...

Right, I was getting the dreaded not starting problems, and a bit of oil in the red plug, usual ****.and being a 205k mile car, I figure do the injector seals while I'm in there, because why not. Anyway, after a bit of ****ing around, she runs well, but takes a while to start, even after doing...

To be honest, I've not a clue with clutch wear etc. As far as I can see, everything is in decent nick here, but would rather drop needed cash now than pull a bastid gearbox again. Flywheel seems fine, no real slop and goes back to where it's meant to be, will obviously do the spigot bush and...

Right, the shed has decided that 2nd isn't for the likes of me. at least not when it's useful. I can go up through the gears with no issues (apart from a heavy foot) and down 5-4-3, no drama. 2nd isn't available, mostly completely blocked, can sometimes get it by pretending to shift into 1st...

Right. Have a heated windscreen on my D2, doesn't work and I don't know why. Getting battery voltage and continuity at fuses 7 and 8, switch lights up, turns off after a while. Have swapped relay for a known good. Don't have voltage at the windscreen connectors, so I'm assuming theres...

Right, Just noticed a red puddle where I left the barge earlier, quick taste revealed it was antifreeze, not blood. Anyway, seems to be piddling out of a small hole on a bracket... thing. (on the attached photo circled in toddler-green crayon) So, what is it?

Shed has apparently worn a front arb link out now (what a surprise) but also the existing middle-of-the car random banging noise when going over slightly lumpy remains. Watts linkage stuff seems fine, in that there's no obvious slop and the knocking doesn't show when someone's rocking the car...

Right, as I slowly work through the niggles on this sorry excuse for a car, I've come to the AC. The diagnosis so far is pretty much "well, I know that bit is missing" but I dread to think what caused that whole gubbins to be removed. Am I worth just getting a used compressor, swapping the...

I'm assuming the lack of a thinger here is intended, but with this particular shed. I figure worth asking before I start throwing money at other problems (effing wheel bearings).

Right, so far I have peeled the **** bathroom mastic out of the sunroofs, done all the roof card fiddling, fettling, drain cleaning and suchlike. (to no avail) And mow I have replaced the mastic with sikaflex, as frankly I couldn't care less about working sunholes, I just want a dry car. And...

Well, we knew it was possibly an issue, as some bloody savage had "fixed" the sun roofs in the past... with waterproof fibreglass shed paint. Bad weather has rather exposed the issue, cars wedged under a shed and I need a beer.

Well, after years and years of coveting thy neighbour's Landy, we ended up lost, confused and carless, but with a few quid to spend on a new toy, needed something big because we have a smallholding and end up doing terrible things to nice cars. So, we've ended up landing on an X reg disco 2...