Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club Forum

I used fir tree type fixers which already have a flush head and used a old external heated soldering iron to press the ends over to hold the units back on. I was pedantic and used white ones to match the orginals but once on they do not come off again. You can heat them direct with a gas bunson burn...

Rear door card is easy to remove but be careful with the screws up the outer edge running from the bottom of the door up to the rear latch. These are attached by white plastic blocks or in most cases no longer attached as they break on slamming - even when you know about this our kids still slam the...

BIt the bullet and removed the NSF shock tonight as nothing showing elsewhere. Nothing stuck suspension all free etc - had to be shock to my mind. The car would not bounce on the NSF corner all others fine and made car virtually un driveable. Shock came out no issue - a modified extractor makes the ...

Took car for MOT the other day as its not been on road since engine went in feb and no point in taxing at the moment so had not bothered MOt the car either. Car behaved fine to station but on way hope front end was very bouncy to NS. Car now has noreal easy bounce on the NS - push the suspension tur...

Have recently fitted a stainless manifold and front pipe from a honda d16 engine to my early 1990 Honda SOHC unit - can confirm that the manifold fits beautifully but the first front pipe obvious fitted the manifold but was not long enough to marry up with the standard rover steel exhaust system. In...

Cannot remember sorry - took it apart some years ago now. Have looked the the R8 5 doors we have and know the seats flip forward of course but the belt is a pain to get out as the rear trim around the hatch boot needs to come off to release the strap and never had to do this fortunately. Dont rememb...

Probably should have said bolted!

Bottom ends are screwed - possible torx screwed (cannot remember head but think it not hex) into floor and outer ones are likely to be very rusty if the scrap one I dismantled is anything to go by. Centre ones come out ok. Top belts I cannot remember as pretty certain I looked at them and decided th...

So why are both mine C when Pauls is B for 5 speed and RHD when both mine are the same? Or is a honda gearbox thing compared to rover engine/gearbox thing?

Both mine are CAD at the end A becuase they are early series but C??

Normal I pretty certain. The early cars do have lock both side but the later ones only drivers side. Ours are quite high bite point on both of our 216 D16 honda engines and have done clutch on one which was worn out at about 210K I think and other is starting to get that way about 200K ish. Howver t...

Gaydon used to have R8 number one but chose to sell it - after a period out in the wild it is now safely cared for by a well respected member of this forum/club

I find that one or two cars appear easily. Three is a big jump but then they keep coming. Be careful. I got stuck at three then also of sudden I find myself at six or so and no trying not to break into double figures or I will be seriously sunk. I now have to classify some cars (such as chassis with...

I can report that he job is done and a success. More details will follow once I have the car properly back in use (lockdown does save you an awful lot of petrol - been driving twice in two months!) but at the moment can detect NO difference at all. Reused the original engine wiring loom, exhaust man...

About to put a much lower mileage engine into one of my pair after it came home with a hole in heater hose, little water and after fixing burning oil which indicate to me that the head gasket has gone and the rings are cooked. As the engine has now done 255K and has never been completely leak free f...

The honda engines talk to you after several weeks too - the noise does not seem to use battery power particularly. The battery issue we had was fitting a new radio which whilst looked identical was a vauxhall one and uses the other polarity to say memory so was never actually off properly and used t...