got the starcraft home...on the back of a recovery truck!

Might just be slightly rusty flywheel or input shaft, split it all apart & look at it before you buy a new one.

It only did 400 miles in the past year...could be significant?

Yup. Cleaning it all up with wet & dry (or a sander) will probably cure it. Given the price of clutches you might want to change it anyway once you've got it to bits but clean up the flywheel anyway.

a collapsing needle roller in the back of the crank can give these symptoms too.

will do.

just tried finding the dip stick, bloody awkward. facing the front, its at the rear right, now the dipstick has many notches, but funny curves...not a mix and max...or even a 50% as i can make out.

Its seems v low, so i need to get some oil, the old guy said he put heavy oil in it...never heard of it, but then never had a diesel before :-)

If it's the ols Pug 2.3 then 15W40D was fine. About £0.50 a litre in 25 litre drums.

still not sure what engine it is, so cant ge the clutch done...not sure if i ring ford they could help either.

now its my first diesel, thinking of running the old bird of veg oil.

Parts department might help if you can go there but you'll be lucky. If you take the old one out then it's probably a Luks or Sachs & you'll be able to get the part no. from the pressure plate.

It'll need some dino/sulphur to lube the pump on one that old.

yeah, it looks like that is what im gonna have to do

ah ok ta. worth looking into

Where from? I could do with some for the Landy.