I think I now know why this pump was on the scrap heap. it seems that the cylinder end cap which is of nasty die cast aluminium construction had opened up. This was causing it to fail to enagged with the threads on the brass cyclinder. I tried to gently tap it closed with a hammer, but wound up caused fractuers in the die casting. I concluded at this point that it was either junk or it would need to be bodged, since I wouldn’t be getting a new end cap. So bodged it was. A shame, but such is life, at least it should be usable, which was the real aim here. While I had the pastic padding out, I filled a couple of holes in the Land Rover floor:
I was finding that adjusting the windscreen wiper knob was difficult when driving due to it’s small size and the minimal protrusion from the dashbaord surface. We we’re out last weekend when Abigail had some kin dof pouch of food stuff, this came with a lovely cap which I thought would work perfectly as a knob… The red thing: I’ve not used it yet, it seems to be okay, just epoxied it to the old knob, so not a lot of going back now.
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