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I don't know what you mean. 9mpg is about average isn't it? (it gets 15 on a run)

as much as that?? my sd1 vitesse would only do 3 mpg....

Was some of the rust you previously mentioned on the bottom of the petrol tank?

I borrowed my mated RR to go to Blackpool in. My Daimler would have cost less in fuel.

John Craddock to the rescue, bits arrived this morning.
I had half a tube of cam lube left from when I put the engine together so I made use of it.
part way done and complete As the other side is the same no point in posting a pic of it.
If the weather is OK tomorrow then jobs are,
Pull and wire brush the rocker covers as they are looking pretty grotty
Fit the new rockers, and put the covers back on with new gaskets
Pull the sump again, degrease the outside and wire brush the rust I have seen on the bottom then wave some morris green engine paint over it. (it's the only engine paint I have and it will look better green than oil and rust plus I have no idea what colour it should be)
Re-fit it with a new rubber gasket. I have never seen rubber sump gaskets for a rover v8 before but as every cork one I have fitted has fallen apart within a year or so and started leaking again so hopefully this is a fit once and worry about it again in another 150,000 miles when I rebuild the engine.

TerryG wrote:Was some of the rust you previously mentioned on the bottom of the petrol tank?

no leaks in the tank just a very heavy right foot
i only did 5000 miles in that car but every mile was a smile, & the music box under the bonnet was to die for
this was before i had wife & kids to spend all the petrol money..

I suspect that I may suffer with a similar affliction but with a Rover v8, booting it is the law!

Nothing like as much done as I would have liked due to PITA stuck bolts on my daily which needed a service. However I now have my new rockers fitted despite the o/s rocker cover refusing to go on for 2 hours!
New problems discovered: HT lead on cylinder 2 is arcing out (not bad for a set that are only a month or so old), the return line from my oil cooler has been resting against the front of the o/s exhaust manifold and is almost burnt through. I have to replace the PAS lines in the near future so I will do the oil cooler lines at the same time.

So next weekends job is now to sort out the sump, bung on my old HT leads which are in the garage and were fine and re-plumb various bits.

Does anybody know where you can get those plastic clips that grip hoses and clip them to things like you have in modern cars?

Do you mean omega clips? Try http://www.bresco.com

On my moderns, there are these things securing hoses to other hoses wherever they run adjacent to each other. There are also metal clamps which look like a figure of 8 sliced down the middle with a bolt to re-secure it that clamp the PAS lines together.
Irritatingly, the lower oil cooler line has a clamp that secures it to the inner wing but the upper line doesn't as it sits slightly too high but one of those plastic clips looks like it would do the job of keeping it out of the way of my manifold.