Evening all.

Having brought my VVC K series, I am now looking at changing all the belts and head gasket so that I know it's been done using the uprated MLS stuff and uprated lower oil rail.

However, where is the cheapest place to buy the bits? The MGOC want roughly £280 for the MLS head set, oil rail and head bolts, both timing belts, a tensioner and a new water pump. Whilst I want to do it properly, I'd rather do it for less than that!

Hi, I bought a multi layer shim gasket from ebay ages ago and it was perfect user id is (shirley9293) and they have lots of k series stuff for sale also you should be able to get the gasket from land rover as they reinvented it for the freelander so worth getting a price from your local landy spares dept
Ray

As he says^^^ i also got mine off fleebay, complete with the looong head bolts, whole gasket set was £40 ish delivered, and served very well on my r75 1.8 k series

I would buy one again if i had a K series now

Steve

bloody laptops !

[Edited on 25/8/10 by steve m]

Mmm, that sounds good. I was a bit dubious about the £40-50 kits when some places want twice that for just the MLS kit and no bolts!

Off to Ebay it is then.

I have trawled through my ebay, and found that the following link, is exactley the same one that i bought
and as i said, i would again !!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ROVER-FREELANDER-HEAD-GASKET-SET-AND-BOLTS-UPRATED-/200437862142?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM

Rimmer brothers of Lincoln do genuine parts.Not bad on price.
http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/

Whole load of rubbish talked about what you require to do the job. All you need is a multilayer head gasket, they can be found for £20

You don't need new bolts, you don't need the oil rail.
Rover bolts can officially be reused 5 times but you must check the bolts screw down fully into the block.

The block ladder isn't stronger or stiffer it is just made from a more creep ressistant aluminium alloy.

All that really matters is proper cleaning and preparation of the parts and accurate torquing and angular tightening.
However I advise fitting the PRT thermostat conversion ---- easy enough to do.