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If Andrew doesn't have these I'd be interested

Totally missed that thank you - will adjust later!

Taken me far too long to get around to this, but I went out on a limb and got a new throttle cable from Rickover a couple of weeks ago and finally managed to fit it today.... Problem solved! Changing the cable was a lot less of a ball ache than I had expected it to be which I'm grateful for, managed...

If the OP is dismantling the engine anyway, then surely fit the seats while it's apart. A word of warning: if you re-lap the valves in then you will wear away any build up of lead that 'may' have occurred anyway. I'd agree - if it's coming apart anyway then you may as well do it while it's apart......

Andrew 2.8i wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 6:44 am

D366Y wrote: ↑Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:30 pm Mine was just after I'd installed a new exhaust

I can confirm that your exhaust makes a lot of noise !

Andrew.

I'm quite sure I don't know what you mean.....

I've had a similar problem in the past and it was as Hamish has suggested - the exhaust was hitting something on the underside of the car, and exactly like he has suggested, if you pry the exhaust away at various points with a piece of wood I found where it was touching and moved it. However, quite ...

the metal goes from being thick and study to only a few mm thick You can fill that thin 'void' with chemical metal/filler, or similar to strengthen it. There is a tab on the other part which locates in that void but doesn't appear to do anything, so that could be ground/drilled off. The handle woul...

Unscrewed the yellow adjuster all the way out, still about an inch of play! Looks like a new cable will need fitting Not sure what could have happened to the existing cable to warrant a new one though? Are we sure it isn't something else that's happened here. Just don't want you to change the cable...

Unscrewed the yellow adjuster all the way out, still about an inch of play!
Looks like a new cable will need fitting - is that a massive ballache of a job or can I do it myself?

I did all of that apart from unscrewing the yellow adjuster - I didn't know you could do that!!
I just looked at it and went "that's the problem"

If it can be adjusted I will try that later and see if it can be fixed

God shout Paul, the first time I went they gave me the wrong tint, and it also had a rear view mirror pad on it so had to be re-ordered

Looks like Tom was right from the start!
Throttle cable very loose to the extent I can pull part of it out, and when I pull part of it out it brings the pedal back up to the correct level

Now just to spend forever trying to find one for "a reasonable price" !!!

Not sure what you would even out it on??
The last actual Cossie escort was in '96 and the escort was killed off in favour of the focus in '03

Mine snapped right where the handle things out to join to the mechanism as the metal goes from being thick and study to only a few mm thick

The lady from the insurance company rang me a bit ago, just to make sure they can get the right tinted one. Told her it's bronze & luckily she can get one no problem. When I got mine done a couple of years ago they use Pilkingtons to supply the screen anyway and they're good quality so fingers ...

Thanks guys, will have a butchers tomorrow!!

No worries, I thought the price was quite reasonable so thought they may be of interest!

But no, the switch flips smoothly. It's the handle/winder the I have to force? I would stop using he sunroof until the issue is fixed. The handles have been known to snap and a replacement could cost you an arm and a leg. As an indication, there's only one decent one on Ebay at the moment and it's ...

Found nothing in my emails but started digging and found these which are correct; https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234534460383?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338268676&toolid=10044&customid=Cj0KCQjwhLKUBhDiARIsAMaTLnEVPGdjzklT8x54v73cFi6i5qcWQq8BRAe-pH6ZeMfa...

pbar wrote: ↑Tue May 24, 2022 1:26 pm

D366Y wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2017 12:53 pm I bought a batch for the wheels a while back pretty cheap

Could you tell me where you get them from Danny please.

Oof now you're asking Paul!
I will dig through my emails and see if I can find where I got them from but it was 5years ago so make no promises