No good deed goes unpunished

Have spent the most appalling couple of days doing a clutch on a 2002 Discovery. Among other things I just could not get the box lined up for love nor money[1] and then, having got it back together, find I've crushed the steel clutch pipe where it runs around the back of the engine, hovering over the separation line of box and engine. What fuckwitted Midlander thought that was a good place I have no idea.

A new pipe is £130 (which is a good chunk of the mate's rates I offered to do the job for) so that's out.

The pipe is a long run of steel with a coiled plastic piece at the master cylinder end (presumably there to absorb the engine motion).

I'm torn between:

  • Run of Kunifer with appropriate BSP fittings on either end and sod the plastic bit

  • A 4/6mm[2] push-fit to BSP fitting to rescue the coiled plastic bit and a length of kunifer (or even 8/10mm copper microbore with extra fittings)

  • A vague and touching hope in the people breaking cars on eBay.

  • Getting blind drunk and jumping off a tall building

Opinions, words of solace, names of good pubs or very tall buildings, etc.

[1] I'm not even going at it blind, this is the 3rd I've done. [2] Not measured it yet. Hope it's not imperial
Reply to
Scott M
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Can you mimic the plastic coil in Kunifer? The thing to be aware of is just how far an engine will "rock" on its mountings when at full torque (either driving or under engine braking). You can take comfort from the thought that it will not need to last another 15 years.

If it is used for towing or serious off-roading I *think* I would be inclined to keep the plastic. Clutch fluid pressures are not particularly high, don't see why microbore copper should not be as good as Kunifer provided it is well supported and protected against fretting. Could you even do the whole system in suitable plastic?

Reply to
newshound

If you were doing it for me, I'd pay for the damaged pipe.

Reply to
RJH

Let me know your address and I'll come and screw your car up for you too :-)

I've already found that the front prop shaft is seriously mullered (+ £160), the rear guibo/rotoflex coupling is looking a bit sorry (+ £30) and the fuel cooler started to weep when the pipework was flexed (+ time

- I already have a spare set of O-rings) so I don't think they'll want to shell any more out. As with most people I help out they're usually half way to brassic! But I've remembered a good Disco scrappy I know of so I'm living in hope he can turn one up and I can bury the cost in the extra spares!

Nothing like Land Rovers to consume spare parts. Makes the W-reg TD5 I also look after seem unsurprising. And at 212,000 positively reliable!

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Scott M

Looking at the state of the rear of the chassis members, deffo not another 15 years! I've pondered a loop of Kunifer but I've half a mind that it work hardens which would, I presume, make it brittle in time. It's mostly a road car tho with dirt track and occasional duties pulling a harrow.

It's a good thought that; I wouldn't even have to follow the same stupid route that the original pipe runs. Since I do a fair bit of plumbing, I don't see why I can't fabricobble the whole thing in assorted fittings. If my breaker comes back with a daft price on a second hand pipe I'm going for the various push-fit to BSP fittings which abound on eBay!

Reply to
Scott M

any hydraulic hose place could supply a suitable bit of bendy pipe and fittings, often they even have a mobile van that knocks them up on site.

Reply to
MrCheerful

En el artículo , Scott M escribió:

Liking it. :)

No advice to offer on your brake pipe problem, sorry. But a 15 yr old Disco? Is it worth any more effort than cleaning the rear-view mirror?

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Mike Tomlinson

En el artículo , Mike Tomlinson escribió:

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Mike Tomlinson

They are one of those areas that, like builders/plumbers merchants were to me 10/12 years ago, scary and therefore I keep my distance[1]! I ought to try and find one and see, although I have tracked down a reasonably priced 2nd hand one so, next time!

[1] Whereas I now know that merchants are not scary, just over-priced and oft staffed by people who failed to qualify in building/plumbing/etc!
Reply to
Scott M

Not mine so it has to be done! It's odd though. I can't get my head round the idea that it's not a fairly new car as it's the desirable posh-headlighted facelift model. In my mind this makes it about 10 years newer than the pre-facelift W-reg I also look after - which admittedly does look its age.

The W-reg has been on the road 4 years ago after I bought it as a 10 owner 170k mile wreck and spent time fettling it, it's now at 210k and, bar rear chassis welding at the last MoT, it's rarely been off the road for more than a few days while bits turn up.

The 02-plate is only at 170k so plenty of life left yet(!)

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Scott M

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