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[Doctordiesel77]

Cleaned out the interior?? Surely you should have someone to do these things for you Looking good anyway, fingers crossed on the glue front!...

[Doctordiesel77]

No problem, I can remember the years between Bishops garage (local Rover dealer with brilliant parts dept) closing & me laying hands on a pile of parts lists...my parts interchangeability dreams were sometimes shattered! If you are stuck for a clutch cable I should have a spare, but it will be motaquip...

Thanks again John, always helpful and knowledgeable, much apprecited. Geoff.

[Doctordiesel77]

I thought you got all of the sun up there All of the diesel clutch cables are the same (apart from the very early ones which had a different fitting on the gearbox end) , GVC5027, replaced by GVC5067, the unipart catalogue says GVC7067 for the diesels, so all three of those numbers should be interchangeable....

[Doctordiesel77]

A good job done cheap! I would say 'what do you get for two quid?', but you've just told us....a dry boot...

[Doctordiesel77]

The glue seems to be the critical component, I hope quality isn't going downhill like it has with rotor arms and so on....

[Doctordiesel77]

Not be long before it is back on the road...

[Doctordiesel77]

I guess they must have gone metric at some point, I'm glad I didn't just buy a box of imperial core plugs rather than just ordering the sets on Jeff's ebay link!...

[Doctordiesel77]

A bit more progress today, now oil pump and filter filled with oil before fitting the sump. I'll have to try to avoid knocking too much paint off when putting the rest of the bits on!....

[Doctordiesel77]

Odd, you'd expect quite a lot to be coming out. Mind you, I got paranoid about mine & put an electric water pump in the heater return hose & it made no difference at all as far as I could tell! Taking the pump off to check for wear involves quite a bit of dismantling...A cheap electric pump...

[Doctordiesel77]

On the cars it is difficult to see if the coolant is circulating (no rad cap on radiator), but on a Land Rover you should be able to see it flowing out of the top hose into the top of the radiator. If you clamp the heater hoses either side of the oil cooler & disconnect the one coming from the...

[Doctordiesel77]

[QUOTE=Jeff Turbo;n339094]Same as these, all O series have the same core plugs
[URL="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/314893073545

Quite a reasonable price...

[Doctordiesel77]

No problem, some of these bits are getting harder to find these days!

[Doctordiesel77]

[QUOTE=MatthewL;n339090]Thanks to you both. I reset them with the aid of the Haynes. The driver side one sweeps to the very edge of the windscreen but seems to be fine now.

My next issue is a pool of coolant. Incredibly a core plug must be suitably rusted from inside that it was spraying...

[Doctordiesel77]

If Wilcox's don't have them there are some on ebay at the moment: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174759590155 or stainless https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204295829018

[Doctordiesel77]

The Montego front discs and calipers will go straight on and use the original hoses, not sure about air cleaner modifications, rear wheel cylinder repair kits often appear on ebay, as do new old stock wheel cylinders. If you have any problems finding them I've got a few spare cylinders...

[Doctordiesel77]

Recline knobs sometimes appear on ebay, part number is YXX 4929 for handwheel, YXX 4930 for the cap (followed by two letters for the colour).. Oil filter is Crosland 363, Unipart GFE157, thread size is 13/16" UNF, the same as 'o' series so not hard to find. Air filter is Crosland 9059, Unipart...

[Doctordiesel77]

If adjusting the position of the arms doesn't fix the random parking, it may be the control unit, which Rimmers still have (& cheaper than ebay)..I'm assuming here that yours isn't the later one which incorporates the carb cooling fan... Mine were acting up in a similar way, but got better with...

[Doctordiesel77]

All good news apart from POL being cancelled then. I'm always amazed at the number of times something you need turns up when you're looking for bits & bobs for someone else

[Doctordiesel77]

Be daft not to... Cheers Jeff!...