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I'll have a look for you next time I'm under there.

I thought I recognised the location 👍

Where's this photographed Craig ? I'll take a really wild guess at Olivers mount but I have to say, great photos 👍

There's also someone who does a conversion on the p21 radio to mp3/Bluetooth etc. Not cheap, something like 250 quid.

I've been watching Get Carter recently and never noticed there were two Cortinas used until I did a good old google search for Get Carter Cortina and bsc popped up in the results. I also hadn't noticed the lack of front bumper on the one where he's travelling to Kinnears mansion. Silly me..

A friend of mine told me some years back to bend it in the vice so I clamped it up and went ahead and put some pressure on it with a large ring spanner and the thing snapped clean off at the base, just above the rubber gaiter. I told him shortly after and he said "Sorry, I told you to bend it in the wrong place, It's above the rubber bush part that you bend it. I'm guessing the bit I tried to bend is hardened so doesn't take kindly to being bent but the only problem is if you bend the top section you end up with a weird shaped gear lever as the hardened section at the bottom has a bend in it. Pain in the butt those gear levers. I tried an aftermarket quick shift kit where you dismantle the original gear lever and rebuild it with the quick shift parts in the kit but it was a terrible thing and rattled it's head off. That went in the scrap bin too. You're probably right Craig about the Capri one being straighter. I think I must have had Sierra ones and the angle on those is terrible.

I bought the Syringe as suggested here by John. Bigger than I expected and heavy duty. Holds 550ml and I managed to extract 4 of those (and a bit) from the gearbox so I roughly had 2.5/3 litres out of the gearbox. A bit disappointing but I'd only get around the same out of it If I removed the pan off the bottom. I've replaced what I've extracted with fresh fluid and I'll run it for a few hundred miles and hope for the best Then maybe drain again and fit a new filter. Watch this space as they say.

What you will find swapping to a type 9 five speed is the crankshaft on the 2.3 engine won't accept a spigot/pilot bearing big enough for the five speed input shaft as it has a smaller bore so it won't be a straight forward swap. I had this problem when I tried on my Mk4 and I know someone with a MK5 who encountered the same issue and had to have a Phosphor Bronze bush machined specially to do the conversion. I have an engine from a manual 2.3 Cortina in the garage and the bearing in the end of the crank is smaller than that of a 2.8 five speed. The input shaft on a Cortina V6 4 speed box is smaller than a type 9 five speed.

Ok Craig, thanks again. I did a bit of googling and some suggest it's ok to mix the two. One other interesting comment was you can use the mineral type oil for earlier boxes in the later red dipstick gearbox designed for dexron ATF but not the other way around. That's how I interpreted it anyway.

Thanks again Craig. One more question. If the current atf in the gearbox (comma brand) at the moment is a mineral based oil and I drain out as much as I can then re fill with dexron type fluid which I believe is a semi synthetic based oil would I end up with problems do you think ? I don't know if I'm reading too much into this but I want to make sure before I potentially mix incompatible oils. Cheers

Cheers Craig. I was a bit confused as the early dipstick is black and the later one is red. Not sure my local motor factors will have a clue. All the decent ones have packed up. Imagine walking in to Eurocarparts and asking them for gearbox fluid for a Cortina Do you think this would be suitable ? Morris ATF

Following on. Can anybody recommend the correct fluid for this gearbox please ? The dipstick top is red coloured as opposed to black but all the ATF fluid I keep coming across seems to be for Borg Warner boxes. This is the info out of the Granada Haynes manual All the oil I looked at seems to match that earlier spec. Cheers all

Ah, I see No problem, Glad you got it sorted.

I refitted mine after carefully removing the rivets from the original ball joint when I replaced the lower ball joints a couple of years ago. As Craig said they are originally to retain the rubber boot over the ball joint but the replacement ones are held on with a spring clip so not needed on non genuine replacement parts. They do nothing but act as a washer for the new bolts but I like to save original parts if I can. Link to my ball joint thread Lower ball joint replacement

Yes. That looks better