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:
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