10am Got a phone call from Son No.1 today

[MGJohn]

Son No.1 said:

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Dad, there's a pool of clutch fluid under my slave cylinder in my firm's car park and car almost undriveable. Can you get me a new Slave Cylinder and I'll fit it as soon as I get home from work.
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Duly collected a new Slave Cylinder for the lad. Bit of a worry that though. I refurbished that Slave Cylinder on his 194,000 mile 620ti only last summer. However, onwards and upwards.

Son arrives home just before dark and soon has his car up on my Ramps to allow better under car access. He comes in and then says nothing wrong with the slave... .... Dry as a bone ( bit of a relief that ). However, the Flexipipe union has seen better days and is allowing Hydraulic Fluid to escape:~





Fluid everywhere ...

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Do you by any chance have one Dad ?... Otherwise I have no car for work ...
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I do but no idea where in the vastness of my jumble filled garage. Ten minutes later ... Found it ! An hour later and much help bleeding the newly fitted replacement ....

said:

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It's never gone into reverse that well before Dad! Best ever! Excellent!
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That's what Dads are for ...

Meantime ....

Just watching Wallace and Gromit on BBC1. A matter of Loaf and Death! ... :~

Wallace said:

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Luvverly Cuppa Gromit ~ bit of a Diesel aftertaste though ...
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Clarkson ... he say :~

Clarkson said:

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Devil's Fuel!
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Superbly entertaining.

Meantime, I'll put Kettle on ...

X-Posted from a thread I started earlier over on MG-Rover.org

[VinceFox]

good feeling when a bit of kit youve kept gets someone out the desert, isnt it?

[tonys]

In my case, it normally happens about 1 week after I've thrown it away

[MGJohn]

I rarely throw anything of even minimal value away despite my good lady trying to persuade me to do so. Anyway, she's a bit of a Magpie odds and sods accumulator too, but, not surprisingly, never automotive items....

Ten years ago she nagged me to dump that old bike taking up space in the back of our garage. I sold it soon after and got a tidy four figure sum for it too. They simply do not get it ...

However, I really must make and effort to set up an Inventory and systematic storage system for all that useful stuff in the double garage. Just as soon as she gets rid of all her household stuff she has migrated there over the years.....

My son was certainly grateful that I had not discarded that slave cylinder, flexi-pipe and hydraulic damper assembly I removed from this car a couple of years ago :~



No doubt because now "everybody" ( except me ) must have a diesel in the impoverished UK, three years ago I could not sell this half-decent unfairly labelled "Gas Guzzler" Rover 620ti despite long MoT and lots of Tax. Someone remembered I'd rebuilt the PG1 gearbox with uprated 14-ball steel caged differential bearings and made an offer for the gearbox I could not refuse. I carefully removed all the key components and sold most of them. I had used the car for nearly a year until the Tax and MoT were about to expire. I made a note of all the items I sold and actually realised far more for the car than my asking price for the whole car!

Previously I had fitted a new Downpipe from the Turbo Elbow to the Cat and kept that on a "come in handy one day" basis. The fairly new exhaust from the Cat back also went on my son's 620ti as his was blowing summat shocking.

Yes, these bits and bobs do come in handy. This week someone made me an offer for the downpipe ... sold! I still have that good Cat ~ that will come in handy ... one day ...

I weighed in the empty shell and got close to two hundred quid for that ~ Even kept the four alloy wheels and goodish tyres... Sad end to a fine old car but, them's the breaks as they say. Took this sad image after dropping it off at the car recycling facility ~ which is posh speak for a scrap yard :~

[MGJohn]

Whilst under the car fixing that leaking hose, my son Martin noticed the Outer CV-Joint Boot on the passenger ( nearside ) driveshaft was split and had lost much lubricant. He has been experiencing a Clunk whilst driving about occasionally and noises near full steering lock.

Anyway, he went to the scrap yard today and removed both Driveshafts from that tidy White Gold Rover 600 Diesel this morning. Those along with some other useful bits and bobs cost him £40. He finished fitting just the nearside driveshaft a couple of hours ago and we took a drive... a nice silent no clunking or other noises drive.

Good result that as previously we suspected that it was his gearbox where the noises were coming from. That would be far more work.

Anyway, another happy owner of a high mileage but smooth running Rover 620ti returns to the fold.

Just gotta lurve this shoestring motoring with a touch of class ...