1983 Rover SD1 2400 SD Turbo Diesel

That's it. There's a picture in this thread...

forum.retro-rides.org/post/2429289/thread

Really like the car colour, unusual and suits it perfectly.
With those covers its worth tying them underneath the centre of the car from side to side otherwise in strong winds it will end up hanging off the back or front or on the car next to it. Probably doesnt matter at this stage but it will mark the paint over a few months outside.
Great project and good to see it running so well.

Edit - I remembered when I used to keep mine outside under a cover I also had to tie the front and back down because the ends would be blown up over the car. It was an expensive soft lined cover but still marked the paint after some time, the second winter it was outside under a cover I used the transport plastic from new cars when they are shipped, put it on all the corners and edges to stop the marking, that worked. Anyway enough waffling I expect it will be inside soon.

Well it was dark and cold, but I am a man on a mission.

First up was to replace the nearside front wheel and tyre, as it would only hold air for about 3 hours. Looked proper sad sitting on a flat and also looked curse word for anyone visiting the office, even under a cover. I have to remember that this car is here by kind permission of our office manager Ian and colleagues, so I cant take the curse word! Jacked it up and swapped it for a spare i had at home.



Looks much better already!



I wanted to remove the accelerator cable so I could try and free it off. In order to do this I thought I needed to remove the arm off the top of the fuel pump. I turns out that I didn't, but I didn't know that at the time.

I recognised that the position of the arm relative to the pump was important and assumed that there would be a flat or similar so that the arm could only fit in one particular orientation. WRONG. It was on a spline, with many potential orientations. This of course was only revealed after the arm was lifted off. Doh!

Anyway I pulled it all off and put the arm in the blasting cabinet to clean it up a bit.

Arm on car rusty



The cable was pretty crappy, the end nearest the arm was partly frayed. Id like to send the whole assembly off to be remanufactured or repaired but for the moment I am just going to re-use this one.

First step was to work the cable forwards and backwards to free it off. There was all sorts of corrosion curse word between the sheath and the cable at both ends. Also the sheath had separated for the end covers.





I taped a plastic bag around the cable and filled it with WD40 and left it hanging in the vice. It worked and WD40 curse word all over the floor.



I cleaned up the cable, then put multiple layers of heat shrink over the cable to ends to hold it back together, then refitted it to the car.

Liberal applications of heat shrink



All back together



Great success, car runs perfectly.

Fcuking love diesel SD1's!!!!

A video of much happiness

Well done Jim nice progress.

then how does a flip paint series 3 land rover get away with it (don't hate me, banter)

Love it, love it, LOVE IT...!!!

Looking forward to seeing this progress - bookmarked! Now to re-read the police SD1 thread

Working outside in the wind and rain, true dedication.
Starting on the key and PAS working is good going, fact the PAS works is a good sign too, like you say probably just needs a couple of hours for the fluid to settle.
I think you are going to struggle to leave this car alone and looking how it was found till the Restoration show.

I'd be sorely tempted to just do all the mechainical/safety/underneath stuff and roll it as is

Maybe get the wheels looking spanking though, as we all know thats the crucial difference between an old wreck and something proper cool.