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Think this must be the 5th one I've done over the years and was the worst. There is a pretty good vid on 'tube for the Mk3 but it's not a 4x4 so it only takes you so far. A big thumbs up to LuKs Technical Dept who when you're faced by a mass of options for the DMF/Clutch kit you need are quick to point you in the right direction. My spring/summer plan is to widen the drive by half a meter. Currently its 2.5m wide with a hedge one side and step the other, both of which make it tight for a trolly jack and you're always conscious of dropping the nearside off the driveway when you go on. Then if I have the need for winter maintenance again; a 6x3m popup garage bolted to the deck which I can butt up to the garage (where the woodburner is), the difference the £8 clearance gazebo made when it was just raining was noticeable.

Thanks for the replies and ignore list suggestions. I stuck a new clutch and DMF in. Which in winter, on the drive with an occasional gazebo (windy too) for a shelter - was fun. Dropped the subframe to give me a little more wiggle room to get past the prop which helps, along with gravity. The refitting was less fun as gravity was no longer my friend and the gear and transfer box are quite a heavy unit. 5 hours of adjusting cargo straps and adding another quarter turn on the lifting chain while using my third (and indeed forth) arm to push the engine forward to clear the donut and get the prop relocated. I would say I'm in no rush to do it again, but the wife's Fiesta needs a clutch too. Least its smaller and same engine as my old Focus which by comparison was a doddle.

By way of an update to this after draining and refilling the gearbox it seemed to be fine except the bite point seemed a little high. Possibly paranoia on my part but for under £500 to stick in a new DMF & Clutch on a car I'm not getting shot of anytime soon I figured its worth the hit rather than the recovery wagon fees and having to do it when it had certainly gone. And as an aside, I've not posted too many times on here. I've been a Landy owner for years and by virtue of that was on many LR Forums, you know that somewhere there will be another with Green Oval disease who has had the same problem and fixed it or you've had it and can pass on the advice. The shared masochism seems to result in a friendly camaraderie, on here among the helpful suggestions there is always a Bellend. I'm sure they can work out who they are.

With it being a quick turn around at work I've not really had much time to play with it other than first thing when I dry cycled through the gears. Just gave it a go and it did both. It now seems to be engaging everything (though I'll not be digging deeper into it until my days off and will stick with the wifes car) before it was purely side to side and felt as if the gate had been replaced with a slot. It was a little 'floody' the other night when I came home so I'm wondering if thats had an effect somewhere? I'd had clutches go before an either and a pedal on the floor or a lack of power were the symptoms.

I suspect I already have the answer but I do like a second brain on problems in case I'm missing something. Yesterday I got in my Mk3 4x4 manual (about 70k on the clock) and discovered neutral was the only 'gear' I had. If I held the lever forward to first she would creep slowly forward, but that wasnt going to get me off the drive and to work. The day before as I left work I'd noticed the first change was a little hard to get into but afterward everything was fine. Cycles through the gears fine when the engine is off and the clutch is nice and firm when I push on it with my hand. My current thinking is reset the linkages and drain and refill the gearbox. Would the brighter minds than mine on here concur?

Appreciated and I hadnt seen that site before and yep it may be the way forward. I'm assuming I could mirror the STL file to get the opposite side, for the pennies it'd cost to knock them out it may well be worth it as what is apparently a disposable item. Reckon you were bang on with the misspell too.

Well apart from the fact I've only had the car for 2 months, your comprehension of 3D Printing is also clearly limited. I'll wait on a response with just a scintilla of knowledge if its all the same to you.

The apparent foil tray which is supposedly a disc shield dropped off my the other week - obviously it waited until we were just leaving the Motorway services with a boot full of camping equipment. Would anyone have a CAD drawing/dimensions of them? I'd quite like to experiment with printing my own (though a bit thicker) and see how that holds up.

Thanks

As a fan of maps, though the Sat Nav is growing on me, where can you get an update for the Skoda maps? My 2015 Octavia was quite insistent that I was 'off road' when I was on the South Devon Expressway yesterday.

Final update on this little issue. I tried another EGT and tested it prior to fitting all the numbers checked out as the same as the original one so clearly the EGTs aren't at fault. I doused the contacts in contact spray said 'Bugger it' to myself as essentially its just a pointless emissions circuit and set off on holiday with the EML reader in the door pocket. In the 1000 odd miles its covered since the coil has flashed about twice and reset itself on restarting. Applying my Landy knowledge to the problem the answer is obvious (no not get the grinder on it solution)- weird crap with car electrics is always a dodgy earth.

Fuel consumption seems ok on mine and then the EGR passed the test. I'd think your idling would be a bit lumpy if it was going and temperature high, especially m/way in the current weather. Plugged it in to see what the tester says? A gas leak somewhere is the obvious answer for my issue but other than where, there's the stop start fault and that its intermittent. 'Is that a feature' on them? I was told that the belt and water pump were changed before I got it so maybe somethings been knocked but whenever I've swapped timing belts in the past I don't recall going near the exhaust.

I've just swapped a faulty EGT 1 sensor on my Octavia following a P0545 fault and all appeared well on the first half of my rather long test drive. On the way back however the coil light began flashing but no EML, it did chuck up a fault in the stop start system - which saves me remembering to turn it off I guess. So once home I plugged her into the box and no fault codes showing, nor pending but it did produce the below, this was also present before I swapped the sensor but I put it down to that, EGR test was ok too. Any suggestions where next to begin poking around/finding excuses to add to the tool collection?

A bit of a bump on this thread as I've had almost the same experience, except mine was a P0545 error. After downloading the workshop manual and reading this post I eventually located the EGT sensor 1, out of sight down between the bulkhead and engine and have to agree at least 3 hands are needed and there's only space for one. Crows foot spanners seemed a little to thick to my mind so I got a 17mm window socket to do the job. As everything is by feel the question next was how to get the socket onto the nut, keep it there and then due to the limited space fit the wrench. Then I realised that the EGT sensor comes with a handy cable which you can slide the socket down onto the securing nut and with a bit of insulation tape round the head of the socket it wont fall off and end up bouncing off of the undertray and settle out of reach on a suspension mounting. So after refitting the tray and dropping the car back on its wheels that's the approach I took. Removal was fairly simple after I cracked the nut it was a combination of fingers and hand turning with the socket. In the words of The Haynes book of lies 'refitting is the reverse sequence to removal'. Except now the socket wrench wont fit at all (even though it did before) and the 1/4" extension suddenly is too long because I want to turn it the other way. Eventually I nipped it up tight but if its the 45nm stated in the manual is another matter.