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[Andy B]

Grease nipples on a modern U/J?  They'd gone at least as far back as my 1973 Cortina. Industry still has them, but long gone on cars, all sealed for life.     

[bigdods]

my '97 TVR has grease nipples on the propshaft UJ and if you dont grease it every 6k miles it can get very rough.

[Andy B]

my '97 TVR has grease nipples on the propshaft UJ and if you dont grease it every 6k miles it can get very rough.

I stand very much corrected. But you wouldn't call a TVR a 'normal' car though. 

When I get a Chimaera or Griffith I'll remember that!! 

[V6 CDX-er]

my '97 TVR has grease nipples on the propshaft UJ and if you dont grease it every 6k miles it can get very rough.

Ah, a fellow Chim owner!    8-)








Mine ^^^^^^^   

[aaronjb]

Ooh, totally off topic but.. I have never seen pictures of a Trevor without it's clothes on.. Do you have any more?

[Kevin Wood]

Ooh, totally off topic but.. I have never seen pictures of a Trevor without it's clothes on.. Do you have any more?

Doesn't look very different to a Westfield without its' clothes on.

Kevin

[Andy B]

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Doesn't look very different to a Westfield without its' clothes on.

Kevin

        

[V6 CDX-er]

Ooh, totally off topic but.. I have never seen pictures of a Trevor without it's clothes on.. Do you have any more?

This was before the chassis refurb, just after the shell had come off. Once all striped down it was sent off to shotblasting, then onto the jig to have new sections welded in, (thicker outriggers, and some of the tubular sections around the rear), along with better and fuller welds in the areas that needed it. Then shotblasting again, powdercoating, a couple of coats of Hammorite, then re-assembly.


And below if another one of afterwards.

[Radar]

I am going to attempt to do a mini service on the omega tomorrow. All though it was done at 65K (now got 68k) it was back in 2009 so needs to be done really. Apart from the oil/filter change, airfilter and pollen filter is there anything else I should do while I am at it? Fuel filter has been done.

Yep, make a point of cleaning the breather system!

From recent, bitter experience, I second Lizzie's point.  The breathers will get blocked - they all do - and that will blow your cam cover gaskets and eventually your HT system.   

Unblocking the breathers (guide in the maintenance section) involves squirting carb cleaner and shi foreign matter into the oil, so do the oil change afterwards. 

As for the rest, this is what I am working to, gleaned from OOF, Vx service book and Arthur's manual (V6 petrol - others probably different):

5000 / 6m
Engine oil and filter

10000 / 1y
Check lights, brakes, aux belt, hoses, exhaust, suspension and steering (including tyre wear, esp inside edge )
General poke around for leaks, worn or broken stuff, or anything suspect
Steering & suspension geometry check

20000 / 2y
Clean out crankcase breathers
New air and pollen filters
Check ATF level, handbrake shoes, driveshaft gaiter

40000 / 4y
New timing belt & tensionner kit, aux belt and water pump
New plugs, fuel filter, brake fluid and coolant

70000
New ATF and filter
Empty ash trays

You obviuosly are not smoking enough!

[aaronjb]

Ooh, totally off topic but.. I have never seen pictures of a Trevor without it's clothes on.. Do you have any more?

Doesn't look very different to a Westfield without its' clothes on.

For some reason, I was quite surprised about that.. no idea quite what I was expecting to see, though Although I think the Tamora is a monocoque?

This was before the chassis refurb, just after the shell had come off. Once all striped down it was sent off to shotblasting, then onto the jig to have new sections welded in, (thicker outriggers, and some of the tubular sections around the rear), along with better and fuller welds in the areas that needed it. Then shotblasting again, powdercoating, a couple of coats of Hammorite, then re-assembly.

Nice - sounds like a lot of work, but worth it to keep something like that on the road, I'm sure

[Welung666]

Paul, give me a call in the morning and I'll show you how to do the breathers. That way you can do them yourself next time

[V6 CDX-er]

Ooh, totally off topic but.. I have never seen pictures of a Trevor without it's clothes on.. Do you have any more?

Sorry. One more for you. Just after it came back from powdercoating;

[Andy B]

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Sorry. One more for you. Just after it came back from powdercoating; .....

It looks too nice to hide under a car and get dirty