a friend of mine's fell apart... the buttons literally fell off and then a hole appeared in the lock button. i re-soldered the buttons and filled the plastic button with paper and hey presto... dunno how long it will last though!

I was trying to get just the black plastic out. Will get the whole lot off.

And how long does that take :eek:

Success. Turns out it was the bits of disintegrated plastic off the top of the coil pack. Don't ask me how it got down there but a combo of poking it with a screwdriver and an airline managed to get it out and the plug is successfully removed. :banana: Thanks for all the input...

Spareness it with a finder?

:ban:

I just tried the vacuum cleaner on it.... No joy :mad: I'll get the compressor out! :violent:

The plot thickens. Have a look at the attached. This looks to me to be silicone sealant or similar. Which is blocking the spark plug tool from getting down to grab the hex. Which is interesting - when the other plugs came out they did have some black rubber / silcone sealant on them. And then...

Here are some pics. I screengrabbed them out of a video. What you can't see is what's going on with the top of the plug ... the bit where the tool would grab. Will try again to get a shot... if it stops ****ing down :rolleyes:

I thought rear bank would cause most grief. But they were all fine! The front 3 were harder, less room to work in... And this one which I reckon should be easiest of all 6! It was cyl 2 that the diagnostic said had the misfire... Not this one... :confused: Same damn thing happened on my...

Yeah... Tried all sorts of things. Managed to get something with a small flashlight and a video cam.. Will post it up.

No... I mean I didn't even get to that point. Put the tool down there and nothing... It's not like it's stuck... The tool just spins and spins (both directions) like the plug is just free balling it down there. :confused: it's like the thread has gone... But I don't want to think about that. :(...

Alright, bear with me on this one. Last weekend I started to change the spark plugs on my 2003 KV6. Started with #5, no worries. Wrestled with #3 for a while before moving on to #1. Did 2, 4 and 6 fine. Went back to #3 and I can't for the life of me get the little sod out. Have tried...

£0 here.

Fixed my wipers. The linkages kept popping off and although new kits aren't too bad figured I'd risk £3 on these: x2 Chrome LAND ROVER FREELANDER WINDSCREEN WIPER MOTOR LINKAGE LINK REPAIR CLIP | eBay Total bastard to fit but do so far appear to be doing the job. Also changed the blades...

I guess our combined enthusiasm wasn't enough! :p

Thanks. It's in a few pieces at the moment so was hoping to test the coils without running the engine. So in the case of this coil, it sounds like the resistance on the outer pin is correct. Just not sure about the middle pin..? I checked in RAVE and it only had useful info for the K1.8...

Need some help please testing my coils on my 2.5 V6. \ Diag is saying misfire on cylinder 2. I've got one of the coils out. Have set MM to 200 (in the ohms section) and with red lead on the left pin on the coil head, black lead on right most pin shows 00.8. Nothing on middle pin. With MM on...

I'm after a functioning inlet manifold for a Freelander 1 V6...

something else to add to the list of stuff that's probably wrong with it :(