Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I
ended up designing a new regulator (based on an earlier Lucas design) and
fitting it _eternally_.

That would be due to the loose nut involved in the installation then?

Rover cars are like Victorian pine floors.

Most people simply throw them away, but there is always someone
somewhere who thinks that spending more man hours on them than were ever
spent on their original construction will turn a sows ear into a
lambswool mitten...