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Thanks for the tips on extracting the remains of those pesky disc retaining screws, guys. The helicoil kits are sufficiently cheap that it has to be worth giving it a go

Replaced cambelt, waterpump and man tensioner. No problems and not as expected from various posts and forums.

Not as difficult as expected i ment

Taxed it..

Same as me Mr B . Then this happened .

To explain the pictures in my last post . It shows the broken bolt hole on the drivers door handle . Which inexplicably decided to break when I opened the drivers door for the first time since last year ! MGF N TF bits supplied a replacement the next day but it needs painting so can't get that done until possibly next week. Ho hum !

I've had that happen to a couple door handles. I've had success gluing the bolt hole back together with epoxy.

Hmm , I did consider epoxy but , I could just picture my better half's cutting comments if it failed whilst in the middle of our French roadtrip later this year . ' Well if you hadn't been so tight ' sort of comment springs to mind and it's peace of mind plus peace if you get my drift !
John

First day back on the road today and after my pitstop at home checking around and a wash n wax..I went out for a chippy tea and stopped at rudyard...everything working as it should apart from me.

I have just repaired my driver's door handle as I had the screw hole break up a few mo nths ago.
I drilled out what was left of the lug(could not glue it as bits were missing) and gorilla glued a length of M6 rod in the new hole and used a small nut which cleared the lock movement.
After struggling with my sausage fingers to replace the spring clip for the lock barrel,I discovered the easy way to fit.
Place the spring in its grove on the handle and use a bit of pressure from a prybar or similar
using the inside of the door to push against and the lock barrel just clips in.

Changing plugs, leads and coil packs because of a misfire,John was right fault on cylinder 4 plug lead
Slightly hamperd by hail and rain. 🙄☔

Glad you've sorted it Gerry . I managed to get my s/h drivers door handle painted and back on. Tested the fob /locking and the EKA, all seems to be okay . Saying that will be the kiss of death knowing my luck .

John