Ohh god, yes! I had to replace the wipers on my mother's Skoda, first time I have had to resort to the operation manual to replace a wiper! (If you haven't had this luxury, there is a procedure to put the wipers in mid position for replacing).

You expect flammable gas and fuel to explode  so there are many safety measures   it became apparent that any old “business man” waste contractor can over look the dangers of dust   I had an involvement with this site before this incident  beware of the potential of dust    

I wonder if @triumphlux knows him? JC?

New shower pump in situ, old one in front. This represents failure . Though I’ve kept it going about a year longer than it wanted to. I may now also investigate it at leisure with the aim of returning to working order as a boxed spare.

I think a GT6/ Vitesse 2L flywheel can work (Sam has proved it actually). Slight reduction in OD to take the MX5 ring gear. Open out the centre hole a little to take an MX5 ball race pilot bearing (or a bit bigger of - 30mm OD is what I have iirc). Concentric slave…. Yeah. I know what you mean…. But GT6 now has one and it works really well. Also Frankenspit (not really any choice there for packaging reasons). 

Thanks that's really helpful 👍 Hopefully if I'm getting a custom flywheel made I can specify the spigot bearing to be spaced backwards enough to engage with the input shaft properly. Good to know that the slave cylinder might fit. It looks spot on in the wrong place, but you never can quite tell until it's in the car.

God's Teeth - literally.  It cut through TWO buildings! An effect to be truly feared. John

Bonus Phillipa Forrester  Jet fire, bloody scary, dangerous thing, just short of a BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion). Very relevant to my old BP job on the LPG plant. Took me a while to find it but this is the extract from the devastation caused by the Hickson & Welch jet fire https://www.icheme.org/media/13704/the-fire-at-hickson-and-welch-ltd.pdf The middle portion of the control block no longer exists, and look at the metal fence.