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