Hands on Mark

Thanks for the advice - I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. It was the Bearings that were failing so I needed to bypass it completely. Actually I got really lucky and found a private seller who had taken one off the car he was scrapping, he only lived 10 miles away so I picked it up, fitted job done - 200,000 miles is now well within reach, fingers crossed!

My aircon pump is failing and threatening to disable the car as lots of other stuff runs off it. Price of a new pump is too much for the value of the car and the aircon hasnt worked for years. Does any one know if there is a way of disabling the aircon pump but keeping everything else running (take aircon pulley off and fit a shorter belt perhaps)

Thanks I'll see if I can find a breakers in Biringham and have that "spare" just in case - with a good length of wire I could then make the splices in the door compartment which gets them away from all the flexing

Hi I have read the (brilliant) pdfs and set out to replace my door wires which have all cracked and / or brocken. Unfortunately one of the wires has broken off right at the connector. The pin it should be attached to is loose but I can't get it out and don't want to break it - advice please

I have a fixed tobar and bought a MaxxRax for it 3 Galaxys and 1 volvo ago. It's still going strong on the back of my Galaxy now - Brilliant bit of BRITISH kit