I haz ovlov 240 - I'm Losing again.

[hennabm]

Another ovlov afternoon. This time it was the turn of the front wheel bearings.

 

Do you ever have a job where everything goes without hitch? You always wonder what will go wrong. I had one today. Everything came undone with ease. OK I had already had fitted new calipers and discs.

 

The old races drifted out easy and the new ones went in easy using the old races and a block of wood.

 

Then it all went back together with no bother.

 

Road test tomorrow now, so we'll see if it will bite back!

[hennabm]

These are the old races - you can see the wear in them;

 

 

[hennabm]

Well after a good holiday in the south west of Scotland and 1600 miles the ovlov continues to get under my skin.

 

First a 6hr job to change the clutch slave cylinder. Whoever thought it was a good design to put a cast iron cylinder into an alloy mounting!

 

Now I have a water leak from the back of the head area, just on the eve when I was going to use it for what I bought it for; towing.

 

So I need to find out if it is just the heater hose/pipe or worse - the h/g...................

 

Thank goodness for a "reserve" vehicle.

[danthecapriman]

Hopefully it'll be something simple like a weeping hose or loose hose clamp.

If the HG is leaking, assuming it's not contaminating the oil or getting into the cylinders maybe K seal or similar might do the job. Not that it's hard to change the gasket on these!

[hennabm]

Hi Dan

 

I'm not sure what it is as the "substance" is thin but has a brownish tinge to it. As the a/freeze is blue it is either rusty water or oil.

 

My main fear will be the exhaust manifold nuts as they look as crispy as a Walkers. I may be able to get the down pipe ones off but they don't look much better.

 

I hope it is water rather than oil otherwise it will be another fight with this thing. I'll have a better look next weekend when I'm back.