RedLineMike

yup, no drive with a broken input shaft

if im understanding you correctly, if you do a timing belt in the future the pump will then be miss timed & you will have to go through this hassle over again,

no different to defenders you see with all sorts of Tat stuck to them

i made my own exhaust for my Ls powered Jeep using off the shelf bends / v bands / silencers, one bank was dead easy as it consited of a couple of 45 deg bends & a silencer, the other was a little more awkward due to having to route round the centre bearing for the front prop, overall no the hardest job n the world, just takes time to make it look nice

ACE pump doesnt have a clutch, its a hydraulic pump that is driven full time by the engine, id suspect your thinking of the aircon pump in response to @egami the pump should turn with some resistence as it is pumping hydraulic fluid through the system

i think you mean they gonna escape right of the end of the axle casing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@henk i got some from Paul Bass at Challenger 4x4 as i was short when i bought my wheels, Not sure if he would have any more spare

for the work thats involved i wouldnt say its an Unfair price,

sounds like a rather long winded way to save wearing out £10 bulbs

£100 an hour for labour is becoming more commonplace these days, no doubt they will also have been using the Book time for carrying out the work for there labour times, @Sharp where about in scotland are you?

in regards to the price without saying what car it was for, it doesnt really give an indication if it was dear or not, without knowing what the vehicle is your making some bloody good assumptions

the rubber pads i was looking at on a friends 4 post ramp have a dotted pattern, infact https://www.rampspares.com/product-category/garage_lift_pads/

looks like the pattern of the pad rather than being lifted 7 times

to be fair id still rather a td5 than a 300tdi, at least with a td5 it tells you whats wrong with itself 😂😂

its also worth noting that if in your normal commute you are driving above 2000rpm in the warm up stage of your journey, the thermostat will be sucked into the fully open position by the waterpump thus circulating the full capacity of the cooling system rather than just the reduced warm up circuit