HMC- Rover 75 mushroom cloud?

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46 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

They're already getting rare enough that drivers wave at each other.  Well they do round here anyway.

I've noticed that. There's a chap round by me who waves when he sees me.

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1 hour ago, HMC said:

Meanwhile ive decided that the 75 is such a nice car i’ll get local mg rover specialist exeter road garage to pull the 1.8k to bits and thoroughly sort the headgasket and associated bits

Nice one. They’re pretty near me and at one point I had visions of myself taking this car to them to find out whether they’re any good… let me know if I can help with logistics!

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2 minutes ago, 2flags said:

I've noticed that. There's a chap round by me who waves when he sees me.

K11 micra owners often wave, I found. Perhaps it’s more about the way a car makes you feel than it is how rare it is?

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3 hours ago, HMC said:

I waved goodbye to the Granada earlier. @rob88h It was a pleasure meeting you, to a fanboi such as myself it was like having Rod Mansfield visit.

Meanwhile ive decided that the 75 is such a nice car i’ll get local mg rover specialist exeter road garage to pull the 1.8k to bits and thoroughly sort the headgasket and associated bits; channeling my inner Gandalf at the combustion gasses…

 

I was just coming back in to this thread to scold you for the title update, I thought when I saw it that it had been up to its old overheating tricks and so rushed in here to apologise!

The cambelt, water pump, and dummy stat housing behind the sump are all brand new and have genuinely done 1000 miles at most so really ought to be fine to re-use, I really think it would be a waste of money to replace them. I will admit that I didn't put any loctite on the crank pulley bolt as you're apparently supposed to, just whacked it up tight with my mains-powered rattle gun.

Anyway I am obviously pleased with this development so will watch with interest to see what the actual state of the HG is. I took a massive bath on this car financially but successfully doing a cambelt was a huge boost to my mechaniching confidence. Thinking of doing the clutch on my A6 next...

Have you managed to get the stereo working?