Low Horatio gearbox

Awesomeness right  there.  Good luck.

Aannnnnd long time no update - life's been busy/shit/something.
 
The Rover finally had the bonnet put back on and  made good 2 weeks ago. And in a fit of oh well may as well.. I swapped the reserve and main fuel lines over so that the  rear electric pump now draws on the reserve line and have the full 15 gallon tank use instead of 13.     Naturally after  nearly 4 months the battery was flat and needed a charge, tho to be fair this was for the best as the brake pedal went to the floor with as much resistance as me saying no to cake.
The root cause bing the  remote booster seal weeping and allowing it to  pull fluid thru and  partially fill the booster  under vacuum while draining the master reservoir.  To be fair I've topped it up twice and it was  gone over with a rebuild kit 4 years plus so it's not a super big leak.  Stripped  it all , cleaned an put backtogether and minor bleeding and braking has been restored.  A rebuilt unit is needed, you can get cheap Chinese  copy replacements for fifty quid but they are apparently utter crap.  It is now back on thr Road and ready for use once  it stops raining.
 
 
The jag...... fired right up and bar checking tyre pressures and fluids was fine. There was an oh shit moment when it seemed the starter wasn't disengaging  but this turned out to be a sticky key barrel .  The weather  has been utterly soaking and shit and combined with huge and exensive major roadworks means  I can't be arsed having them look grimy  or washing either of  them  after every  use  so they had a big winter lay up.   Tho there have been a couple of dry days lately so it's done a tip run and the school run a few times.

Aannnnnd long time no update - life's been busy/shit/something.
 
The Rover finally had the bonnet put back on and  made good 2 weeks ago. And in a fit of oh well may as well.. I swapped the reserve and main fuel lines over so that the  rear electric pump now draws on the reserve line and have the full 15 gallon tank use instead of 13.     Naturally after  nearly 4 months the battery was flat and needed a charge, tho to be fair this was for the best as the brake pedal went to the floor with as much resistance as me saying no to cake.
The root cause bing the  remote booster seal weeping and allowing it to  pull fluid thru and  partially fill the booster  under vacuum while draining the master reservoir.  To be fair I've topped it up twice and it was  gone over with a rebuild kit 4 years plus so it's not a super big leak.  Stripped  it all , cleaned an put backtogether and minor bleeding and braking has been restored.  A rebuilt unit is needed, you can get cheap Chinese  copy replacements for fifty quid but they are apparently utter crap.  It is now back on thr Road and ready for use once  it stops raining.
 
 
The jag...... fired right up and bar checking tyre pressures and fluids was fine. There was an oh shit moment when it seemed the starter wasn't disengaging  but this turned out to be a sticky key barrel .  The weather  has been utterly soaking and shit and combined with huge and exensive major roadworks means  I can't be arsed having them look grimy  or washing either of  them  after every  use  so they had a big winter lay up.   Tho there have been a couple of dry days lately so it's done a tip run and the school run a few times.

Aannnnnd long time no update - life's been busy/shit/something.
 
The Rover finally had the bonnet put back on and  made good 2 weeks ago. And in a fit of oh well may as well.. I swapped the reserve and main fuel lines over so that the  rear electric pump now draws on the reserve line and have the full 15 gallon tank use instead of 13.     Naturally after  nearly 4 months the battery was flat and needed a charge, tho to be fair this was for the best as the brake pedal went to the floor with as much resistance as me saying no to cake.
The root cause bing the  remote booster seal weeping and allowing it to  pull fluid thru and  partially fill the booster  under vacuum while draining the master reservoir.  To be fair I've topped it up twice and it was  gone over with a rebuild kit 4 years plus so it's not a super big leak.  Stripped  it all , cleaned an put backtogether and minor bleeding and braking has been restored.  A rebuilt unit is needed, you can get cheap Chinese  copy replacements for fifty quid but they are apparently utter crap.  It is now back on thr Road and ready for use once  it stops raining.
 
 
The jag...... fired right up and bar checking tyre pressures and fluids was fine. There was an oh shit moment when it seemed the starter wasn't disengaging  but this turned out to be a sticky key barrel .  The weather  has been utterly soaking and shit and combined with huge and exensive major roadworks means  I can't be arsed having them look grimy  or washing either of  them  after every  use  so they had a big winter lay up.   Tho there have been a couple of dry days lately so it's done a tip run and the school run a few times.

Aannnnnd long time no update - life's been busy/shit/something.
 
The Rover finally had the bonnet put back on and  made good 2 weeks ago. And in a fit of oh well may as well.. I swapped the reserve and main fuel lines over so that the  rear electric pump now draws on the reserve line and have the full 15 gallon tank use instead of 13.     Naturally after  nearly 4 months the battery was flat and needed a charge, tho to be fair this was for the best as the brake pedal went to the floor with as much resistance as me saying no to cake.
The root cause bing the  remote booster seal weeping and allowing it to  pull fluid thru and  partially fill the booster  under vacuum while draining the master reservoir.  To be fair I've topped it up twice and it was  gone over with a rebuild kit 4 years plus so it's not a super big leak.  Stripped  it all , cleaned an put backtogether and minor bleeding and braking has been restored.  A rebuilt unit is needed, you can get cheap Chinese  copy replacements for fifty quid but they are apparently utter crap.  It is now back on thr Road and ready for use once  it stops raining.
 
 
The jag...... fired right up and bar checking tyre pressures and fluids was fine. There was an oh shit moment when it seemed the starter wasn't disengaging  but this turned out to be a sticky key barrel .  The weather  has been utterly soaking and shit and combined with huge and exensive major roadworks means  I can't be arsed having them look grimy  or washing either of  them  after every  use  so they had a big winter lay up.   Tho there have been a couple of dry days lately so it's done a tip run and the school run a few times.

Aannnnnd long time no update - life's been busy/shit/something.
 
The Rover finally had the bonnet put back on and  made good 2 weeks ago. And in a fit of oh well may as well.. I swapped the reserve and main fuel lines over so that the  rear electric pump now draws on the reserve line and have the full 15 gallon tank use instead of 13.     Naturally after  nearly 4 months the battery was flat and needed a charge, tho to be fair this was for the best as the brake pedal went to the floor with as much resistance as me saying no to cake.
The root cause bing the  remote booster seal weeping and allowing it to  pull fluid thru and  partially fill the booster  under vacuum while draining the master reservoir.  To be fair I've topped it up twice and it was  gone over with a rebuild kit 4 years plus so it's not a super big leak.  Stripped  it all , cleaned an put backtogether and minor bleeding and braking has been restored.  A rebuilt unit is needed, you can get cheap Chinese  copy replacements for fifty quid but they are apparently utter crap.  It is now back on thr Road and ready for use once  it stops raining.
 
 
The jag...... fired right up and bar checking tyre pressures and fluids was fine. There was an oh shit moment when it seemed the starter wasn't disengaging  but this turned out to be a sticky key barrel .  The weather  has been utterly soaking and shit and combined with huge and exensive major roadworks means  I can't be arsed having them look grimy  or washing either of  them  after every  use  so they had a big winter lay up.   Tho there have been a couple of dry days lately so it's done a tip run and the school run a few times.

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2hilst browsing for chod I spied this.
Frankly I'll  let the pictures speak for themselves.

I mean, that face on the bonnet is the psychological horror the IT remake is all about, it's spot on😂

More than that, I have 2 ......

It's been a long time since I last posted about my Rover P4....and a lot has happened since, in fact, well it started with removing the Front Valance for repainting..... now the front end is now missing to weld some covered up (in underseal) corrosion on the chassis.
Here's a couple of videos....
https://youtu.be/C8F_CoQAdW0
https://youtu.be/MiQShCtjUGU
https://youtu.be/hrNPP6KVO8Q
https://youtu.be/REBYPLuEnr0
https://youtu.be/9YN5JPpqtwM
https://youtu.be/C5MJXU2kzvo

You may already know this,but there's a lovely period film on YouTube from about 1958/9 called In the Rover Tradition. It's largely concerned with the new 3-litre P5 but it gives an interesting insight into the no compromise quality and construction of Rover as it was,rather than the second-rate gasket-blowing fwd landfill which was later to bear the name. Well worth a watch, I'm afraid I'm not technically proficient enough to post a link.

After much thought I've bought a June 1961 Rover P4 80 in Shadow Green , so a little older than me!! ( not strictly shite but it used to be)
I wanted something classic that is useable but needs a little fettling, a rolling project if you like. It is original matching numbers car and came with a good history file with lots having been spent over the last 20 years or so. I may start  a project thread ...there are a few small areas that need a little attention to the body.....
Here's a few images for a start.
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Theres always a viewt 

I can see the appeal Pete, but I can also see what Asimo is saying. If it were possible to make the cut on the roof skin so fine then store the piece, it may be possible to have a good man weld it back in in the future, but even a slitting disc is one mill thick. That's quite the gap on thin sheet to fill without blowing the edges away.
Does look good in that photo mind. End of the day, your car your rules!

Don’t fit a fabric sun-roof, they are the pits!
All sunroofs are a bad thing but those horrid flappy, leaky, creaky Webasto abominations have been the premature end of so many cars.
You wouldn’t fit one to your house, so don’t fit one to your car!

Time to get my hands dirty . . .
  
Up on ramps and with the bonnet open for squirting penetrating-lubrication fluid over every nut n' bolt and every linkage, as well as the back face of the bumpers and under the wings, etc.  I did the same with the door, bonnet and boot hinges and their locks, as well as the control cables / linkages for throttle, choke, heater, scuttle vent, etc. etc. 
Having read a few on-line reviews the PlusGas, Holts Rustola and WD-40 seem to attract most favourable comment.  In my own little test I haven't yet assessed which fastening comes loose easiest but I have observed ; PlusGas was the most expensive but then seemed to offer consistent & good pressure to the very end of the can, as well as having a particularly accurate squirt (using the pin-pointer tube) into places that weren't accessible (for example when aimed at linkages or fastenings 18" away down behind the engine). The Holts Rustola I haven't tried yet because it doesn't accept a tube for pinpointing where I want to lubricate. Without it, the spray came out a bit too fanned out.  The WD-40 was the cheapest to buy (from Euro Car Parts it was just £6 for a 600ml can). I found its squirt seemed a little too much and so it splashed more and wasted more. Then as the can reach half empty/full the spray became inconsistent. Later on it would only spray when the can was upright, which is inconvenient when laying/working under the car.  Annoyingly, the pin-pointer tube kept on coming out of the spray head and the outside of the can became slippery with lubricant. The SAS (with PTFE) ..when using the long pin-point tube off the PlusGas, sprayed as fine mist. This seemed economical and was useful in certain places where I wanted to inject a broad mist of lubricant, for example on top of the front suspension's bottom spring pan.  The GT85 (with PTFE) is physically the smallest sized can, despite claiming the same 400ml capacity as the PlusGas. Its pressure is less and its small size is perhaps easier to handle with or without the pinpointing tube. I'm sure you all have your own preference so I'll not draw a conclusion, save that getting the penetrating fluid / lubricant where you want it, in the small quantity you want, together with consistency of spray when you're in awkward positions - relates to value and ease of use.  Maybe, at times, these attributes are as important as the product's ability to do its penetrating/lubricating task.  Accordingly I think I'll veer towards PlusGas and SAS for future purchases. 
   
^ not bad nick for a car first registered in January 1968, but there's plenty of scope for tarting up, maintenance and improvement.   Nice to find clean air filters in the canisters, and newish looking jubilee clips on the still supple rubber hoses.  The clutch has been replaced recently, and the brakes are very well sorted, tyres are likewise very good (save the spare), and there are still the manufacturer's paper labels on the stainless steel exhaust. Someone's spent some sensible money on maintenance of this car
   
^ rear wheel arch spats are each in amazingly good condition, but mice appeared to have taken up home in the rear seat's foam.  I don't know if they are still in there ..but if they are - they won't be feasting for very much longer.!
      
The weather was bright when I first arrived at the storage unit, and then it rained consistently ..until I'd packed up to come home.  Hey ho it could have been very much worse. 
Pete

The Daimler V8's were sold only through the existing Daimler dealer network I think - and would have occupied showroom space with the Dart and Majestic Major. I also think Daimler were still offering a  bare chassis/engine set-up at that point for coachbuilders. It really was the end of an era. 
I can image Daimler dealers to be a pretty stuffy bunch. The V8'S turned out to be very successful outselling easily the previous 'Conquest' model.
Thought in a parallel universe a Vauxhall/Daimler mash up would have been fascinating to own. 

I don't think the Daimlers were originally sold with wires - it may not even have been an option? The average Homburg-hatted Daimler owner would have considered that too racey.
Likewise the MK2 Jags - fewer were sold on wires...but...
When values of Mk2's moved from the 100's of £'s to the 1000's of £'s - 1980-90 - the trade tarted them up with wires to increase their value - that - some chicken wire, wob and a blow-over in lipstick red. 😂
Owned by bank robbers innit.

If the engine is a goner I have an XUD here that you could fit and become an AS hero.

The drivers door window has detached from the winder mechanism and  is is currently inaccessible inside the door shell.
It appears that the car has been in dry storage for many years previously, as a temporary fix , I have taped a plastic rubble sack over the window aperture to hopefully  keep the interior dry
First job tomorrow is to remove the framework at the front of the car, check if there is any coolant in the radiator and have a look at the engine and chassis number.
Pictures include  the amount of steering lock that was standard on most rear wheel drive cars of the era and the front framework.