Thankfully no

Try sitting on each seat in turn jump up and down in the seat.....seriously you mite feel a fool but it sometimes works. Without a gap tool you will not be able to turn it off but as you say "it goes off then on" try the seat trick

I have no comment

Watch LRTIME on the tube

No it's part of it

A replacment pump off the bay is approx £120 new granted chineaseiam but they work. Your air drier needs new drying medium about a tenner

They list different part numbers for the pump for the different engines but they look identical but .......

Repainted the roof

Smoke test the engine you have a massive vacum leak

A post you should read about this https://www.rrsport.co.uk/forum/topic58466.html?highlight=ace+removal

If your ace pump was in good order and off a petrol I would have bought it as a spare so you could recoup some of the costs of conversion. You will also need to adjust the ccf file in your car to non ace or the dash will light up light an Xmas tree and won't pass its mot. If you need any more...

The resistance of what exactly??

Just smash the window........lesson learnt move on.

Seriously ???

Don't quote me on this but " I think something is broken"

No you don't ignore all of them others they have no idea what their talking about. You take the engine out to access the bearing... .....

And if you read my post correctly you would have realised I was referring to my mates failed rr, nothing todo with your break down. But I have now lost interest ......crack on !

Yes

Try adjusting them 1st iv never done the bedding in procedure on either of my D3s or L320

Diy is the way to go