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Well...I haven\'t tried again yet... Thought I\'d wait for all the helpful advice to flood in first.  :Hammer :rollin

Surely somebody in the club has had similar problems, or maybe I\'m just unlucky and the Speedo sender unit is generally the most reliable part on the entire car. Starting to seem that way!  :rolleyes:

Uhm...This is all starting to look a little more awkward than I at first thought. To drain transmission fluid and then replace, the car has to be level, so you have to jack up both ends of the car and by all accounts it\'s a little tricky getting the transmission fluid back into to the gearbox. I\'m assuming that I do need to drain the gearbox fluid before removing the speedo sender unit??? Is there nobody out there who has any experience of this operation? Some guidance would be highly appreciated. :yes

Does anybody have any experience of removing the speedo sending unit from the side of the gearbox on an FD?

I have removed the single retaining nut and I can rotate the body of the sender unit, but I cannot pull it out of the gearbox housing. I have tried jiggling, levering, tapping, swearing, but it will not pull out. I am kind of wondering whether it is forming a hydraulic lock and if draining the transmission fluid would help (probably be a good idea anyway on reflection).

Would welcome any advice from anybody who has tried this before. I have done a fair bit of Google searching on this topic and very little information out there. :xconfused

As far as I am concerned the only advantage to not having a spoiler is it makes the car easier to clean and polish. Getting under the spoiler on mine is always a bit of a pain. Looks wise, they never look right without one.

Many thanks for the replies. Before I go any further I will have a fiddle and see if its just a simple dodgy connection somewhere. It just seems strange to me that I\'ve had the car 5 years with no problems and then just sitting in my drive unused for 5 or 6 weeks (under cover) and the Rev Counter stops working. :xconfused

My third gen Rex has been laid up for a few weeks and I\'ve just started it up and the rev counter is not working. This has never happened before.  Is it likely to be connected to not using the car for a while? and is there an easy fix?

Any advice appreciated.  

OK how about this: Sell bike and use money to buy new roof for car and hire skip. Clear out garage into skip. Park car in garage - Put up shelf in garage for odd miscellaneous items - Sorted :Thumbs-up

Well my Rex was in the car park - It\'s the least I could do!

Must say it was a fantastic day (went on the Sunday). Didn\'t take many photos though, so nice looking back through Nik\'s collection. I note you took a photo of the streamlined Auto Union - There was no sign up and I was trying to puzzle out what it was - certainly not a track car, it looked more like a Land speed Record vehicle to me.

One of the \'anonymous\' hatchbacks on the Mazda stand was the Mazda 2 in vivid green and my daughter absolutely adores it - I had to photo her sitting in it and she vows to one day own one (when she\'s finished Uni and got a job) - so horses for courses, but I do take your point it was generally very uninspired.  

It was generally a great day, just sitting watching all that exquisite machinery thundering up the hill (the Peugeot Le Mans winner would have put a London Bus to shame with the plumes of thick grey smoke billowing out the back on down shifts. One of the highlights of the day was when we sauntered up to the top paddock at about 6 o\'clock just in time to see Jenson Button come thundering in in a 1930\'s GP Mercedes (he had no \'last years\' car to use). He then jumped out and came across to greet the crowd and sign autographs etc, this was quite an unexpected bonus as we thought the day was over.

Can\'t recommend Goodwood enough, this was my third visit and I\'m just starting to get the hang of where everything is and where the best viewing places are.

Would recommend a small squirt of WD40 and some mole grips (don\'t overdo the WD40 though) The bolt should then be quite re-useable methinks  :King

New ones defo not right for the car, old ones better, but I reckon the perfect wheels are still out there waiting to be found........:driving    (Quick duck whilst half a brick flies past head   )

Uhm.......At a rough calculation, 250% rear wheel slip (must get out more). Interesting vid by the way

Cheers for the advice. My main concern is whether I have enough head room in the FD to wear a crash helmet, as my head pretty much touches the roof normally. I do have an old motorcycle crash helmet in the loft so will get it down and give it a go, maybe need to recline the seat a bit or something.

Not having been on a trackday before, what are the rules with regard to the wearing of crash helmets (assuming a fixed top car) and in-car fire extinguishers etc?

How about one of these :mmmm

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