SD1 Foolery - ROVER 2600 SE - now with FIXED head gasket

[Longblackcoat]

The modern Jag lights are totes shizbat.

 

Same with one of my Mercedes - the S211 headlights are tragic, whereas those on the X164 would, conservatively, light Wembley Stadium. All the way from Watford.

 

Then again, those on the 164 are Xenon (yay!), the others were designed to be but as it's a poverty model have cheapo halogen (boo, utter bag of weasels) instead. You'd get more light from a candle. Even an unlit candle. 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

X-Type lights are fairly tragic but the headlights on my XJ40 are pretty good, especially on dip beam. Notably better than the E91 BMW I also sometimes drive.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I bet they have been replaced with this semi newfangled H4 bollox.

Rip them out and put back proper Sealed Beams.

 

 

You could get sealed beams on the XJ40. SNG Barratt were selling them for pennies in a stock clearance a few years back, so I got a set to try out. Honestly, they were dimmer than a sunburned glow worm. They even looked a bit orange to the eye.

[Junkman]

Were they halogens?

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I don't know, but I doubt it. They may even have been limited wattage, given their light output  - they were Japanese market headlights.

[Guest Breadvan72]

The Dolly lights are the originals and are well known for being FUBAR.  I may swap them for some moar betterer ones.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

You may regret selling the Rover, by which point it'll probably be worth more than whatever you get for it now.

 

Always seems to be the way when I sell something, it suddenly becomes rare and sought after......

 

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[Guest Breadvan72]

New mobile mech coming tomorrow to look at fiddly bits on Rover and Dolly, hoorah.

 

 

[Guest Hooli]

X-Type lights are fairly tragic but the headlights on my XJ40 are pretty good, especially on dip beam. Notably better than the E91 BMW I also sometimes drive.

 

I had twin headlights on my XJ40, I honestly think they are the best headlights I've owned.

[Guest Breadvan72]

XJS lights are good too.  It is surprising how crap the X type lights are.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I had twin headlights on my XJ40, I honestly think they are the best headlights I've owned.

 

 

My car has the Fishtanks. They are similar to the twin headlights on dipped beam, but not quite as strong as them on full beam. The full beam on the twin-headlight XJ40 is the most powerful I have seen on a car as well.

[Guest Hooli]

XJS lights are good too.  It is surprising how crap the X type lights are.

 

I will get a XJS to find out one day.

[Noel Tidybeard]

fit xjs headlights to x-type job jobbed

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Drive the gentlemanly X-Type in the day and the rakish XJ-S at night?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Oil pressure gauge now fixed.  

 

Oil level warning light may have dodgy wire, tbc.

 

Losing some coolant, to be investigated.  Previous owner did head gasket, hope he did it propah like.  No major OMGHGF signs.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Drive the gentlemanly X-Type in the day and the rakish XJ-S at night?

 

 

Plan A, but XJS is borked.

[Guest Breadvan72]

At last, proper Rover happiness!

 

I can haz OMGHGF!

 

Not catastrophic, but a small leak somewhere.  The car still drives OK at present, and isn't overheating, mayonnaising, or spaffing about in general.

 

The bloke who sold the car to me told me that he had had the gasket done "just in case".  I wondered about this.  Maybe it had gone before, and was replaced badly, or there was some warpage not attended to, but I have a spare gasket kit in the shed and the mechanic will come and fix it shortly, and check for warpage or other borkage while he is at it. 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

You're not having any luck with these bloody (yet still rather beautiful) cars.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Inserts Gaulois:  Eh, bof, hein.  Je shrug.  This is a fairly minor thing, I hope,  and standard old car blah.   Head off and onnery on one of these engines is apparently not as horrid a job as on some heaps. 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Big up K Sealin ACTION YO seems to have stopped ye coolant loss for the mo.  We shall see.

[Skizzer]

Fingers crossed. I hope you get to keep it, it's a lovely thing.

 

Reminds me, I need to get the radiator on mine re-cored, it's distinctly lacking in fins.

[Bren]

When time comes to do the HG do not use a pattern item - worth searching out an OE spec item.

[Guest Breadvan72]

can haz one already, in shed.

[Bren]

Many moons ago I was in the SD1 club - I heard tales of pattern gaskets literally failing after a run around the block after fitting.

[Guest Breadvan72]

That might be what happened with the one fitted by the previous owner.

[Longblackcoat]

Big up K Sealin ACTION YO seems to have stopped ye coolant loss for the mo.  We shall see.

 

 

"It'll deffo get to Autoshite - never broken down M9. Ded reliable."

 

Wonder who it was saying that just last night, eh?

[Guest Breadvan72]

It hasn't broken down!  I have just been for a zippy drive in it, up and down some actual roads.  Coolant level stable.  K Seal WINNAFLUID seems to be working.    Anyway, the plan is to torture you in the Dolly, or even the super-shonkster XJS if that gets fixed in time.   

[Guest Hooli]

I haz wantz for XJS's

[Guest Breadvan72]

There is a brown V12 pre facelift one at that car auction today, estimate only 2 to 3K , which seems low.   The best bargs currently are the late full-facelift 6 cylinder cars, as they are not as popular as early cars and V12s, but have useful things like coil packs and ABS and so on, and are viable daily drivers if you don't might mid 20s pez bills.  

 

I am hoping that mine (half facelift 6 cyllinder) will be rescued and painted and so forth later this year, but I might have to sell the Rover to fund that, so, tricky one.

[Guest Hooli]

My ideal one would be a facelift BRG with light interior 4.0 manual on lattice wheels. I'd keep that forever.

 

However what with needing a place to live etc it won't be happening this year