Not such a good evening's work..

Having asked the friendly people on the MG Experience forum how to get the temperature sender out of the cylinderhead, it turns out that you can get to it through the hole for the thermostat in the cylinderhead. Great - easy - just remove the thermostat housing and prise it out thinks I.

Hmm - got home yesterday, undid the three nuts that hold the thermostat housing on and gently tried to lift the cast iron thermostat housing off. Wouldn't budge. Tried gently levering it, cutting the gasket with a knife, prising it with a screwdriver - nothing. I then made a mistake, as it happens - I gave it a very gentle tap with a hammer and the damn thing spit into three parts, each one very much attached to the stud which was holding it in place.

So a new thermostat housing goes on the list and I've got to get the broken parts free without breaking off a stud in the cylinderhead.

On the positive side, I paid a visit to my mate who sold me the car and he had found a few more goodies in his garage, including polybushes for the rear of the car, some new sparkplugs and a spare speedo.

So it's not all bad :-) Anyway, I'm not going to be working on the car tonight as I'm off to the pub instead.