Why oh why .

[madasafrog666]

I noticed a small patch of oil on the garage floor, once investigated it was simples!...coming from a small horseshoe shaped piece of metal with two hoses and jubilee clips just above the exhaust on the passenger side of the car.Only trouble is who ever done them up before me must have been a contortionist. Simple job with a screwdriver to tighten..........NO
One of the screw heads is facing the exhaust and the other is only accessible to someone with fingers 12 inches long. What seems such a simple job now requires me to go to a garage to get the car on a ramp to access the screw heads to tighten them up.

Oh the joys of TVRs

[More Steam]

Will a 7 or 8mm socket on a uj and extension not do it?

[dog man]

Oil filter related item? maybe hoses were put on before fitting was bolted to the block

[Colin RedGriff]

Power steering fluid pipes. Not un-common for them to leak, you can get upgraded ones that are less prone to leaking.

[BrightYellowTVR]

Mine leak as well, do you know where u can get the upgraded ones from please.
Thanks Jon

[Blues]

Jon, I got mine at RG

[darkcat]

every single "simple" thing on the car takes 4-5x as long as you expect.. I think it was a condition of employment that all TVR employees had to have an olympic gold in contortionism...

i changed my clutch master cylinder over the weekend..... a 20 minute job you'd think.?? 5 hours.

[ralphy12345]

darkcat said:

every single "simple" thing on the car takes 4-5x as long as you expect.. I think it was a condition of employment that all TVR employees had to have an olympic gold in contortionism...

i changed my clutch master cylinder over the weekend..... a 20 minute job you'd think.?? 5 hours.

I am at the stage of realising this too: bought my first TVR in September and now it's undergoing a body-off restoration. NOTHING is straightforward working on these cars ISTM: I do wonder what those who assembled them must have thought when considering future work being done - presumably hysterical laughter ensued!!!!!!

But on the positive side: I've developed hitherto unheard-of dexterity, now have quite a resistance to fibre-glass scratches and SWMBO is getting used to applying Deep Heat to my back on a regular basis.......

You miss all this fun on a Merc sports!!!!


R

[quattrophenia]

madasafrog666 said:

I noticed a small patch of oil on the garage floor, once investigated it was simples!...coming from a small horseshoe shaped piece of metal with two hoses and jubilee clips just above the exhaust on the passenger side of the car.Only trouble is who ever done them up before me must have been a contortionist. Simple job with a screwdriver to tighten..........NO
One of the screw heads is facing the exhaust and the other is only accessible to someone with fingers 12 inches long. What seems such a simple job now requires me to go to a garage to get the car on a ramp to access the screw heads to tighten them up.

Oh the joys of TVRs

Yes sounds like power steering pipework. They really put the sts up me because I left my car for several weeks and maybe 3 or 4 drips came from that u joint. They land directly onto the exhaust and about 2 minutes after starting the car they burn off and cause a thin plume of smoke to come out of the N/S bonnet vent for about 1 minute! The first time I noticed it the old arse puckered up a bit to say the least, but a quick tightening up or the clips and all seems fine.

[madasafrog666]

Your lucky your clips are in the correct position to be able to tighten up!, I have had another go since posting this thread, and its impossible without getting the car up on a ramp to access from beneath : :

[Blues]

madasafrog666 said:

Your lucky your clips are in the correct position to be able to tighten up!, I have had another go since posting this thread, and its impossible without getting the car up on a ramp to access from beneath : :

where are you based? I'm in Berks and have an inspection pit you could use

[madasafrog666]

Thanks for the kind offer Blues, I live in Suffolk so quite a trek to Berks from here.
I know someone that works at a tyre fitting garage, so may be able to get the Chim up on the ramp there to do the repair when they get a quite moment.
I still cannot believe that the clips were not fitted with the screw heads facing upwards to allow easy access to tighten or change

[CarlosV8]

quattrophenia said:

Yes sounds like power steering pipework. They really put the sts up me because I left my car for several weeks and maybe 3 or 4 drips came from that u joint. They land directly onto the exhaust and about 2 minutes after starting the car they burn off and cause a thin plume of smoke to come out of the N/S bonnet vent for about 1 minute! The first time I noticed it the old arse puckered up a bit to say the least, but a quick tightening up or the clips and all seems fine.

Had the same problem, but if you're really unlucky the dripping PAS fluid will seep past the exhaust downpipe join and come billowing out of the exhuast too. I just left home for my friends wedding when it happened last year and my heart sank. After a bit of head scratching the next week it all became clear and since I wanted to change the PAS pump anyway it all got done at once, and I made sure my clips were pointing out so they were accessible if it happened again!

I drove the car 30 miles to my Dad's garage to do the work, as it's easier to use his tools/ramps when working on the TVR, and about 2 miles into my journey I join the M27 from a set of traffic lights under a bridge. I sat there for about a minute and the exhaust had got just warm enough to burn off the fluid so there was plumes of smoke surrounding car - coming from the bonnet vents, out the back from underneath etc. I sped off with the roar of the V8 echoeing around and the looks on the other drivers faces was priceless!

[quattrophenia]

CarlosV8 said:

quattrophenia said:

Yes sounds like power steering pipework. They really put the sts up me because I left my car for several weeks and maybe 3 or 4 drips came from that u joint. They land directly onto the exhaust and about 2 minutes after starting the car they burn off and cause a thin plume of smoke to come out of the N/S bonnet vent for about 1 minute! The first time I noticed it the old arse puckered up a bit to say the least, but a quick tightening up or the clips and all seems fine.

Had the same problem, but if you're really unlucky the dripping PAS fluid will seep past the exhaust downpipe join and come billowing out of the exhuast too. I just left home for my friends wedding when it happened last year and my heart sank. After a bit of head scratching the next week it all became clear and since I wanted to change the PAS pump anyway it all got done at once, and I made sure my clips were pointing out so they were accessible if it happened again!

I drove the car 30 miles to my Dad's garage to do the work, as it's easier to use his tools/ramps when working on the TVR, and about 2 miles into my journey I join the M27 from a set of traffic lights under a bridge. I sat there for about a minute and the exhaust had got just warm enough to burn off the fluid so there was plumes of smoke surrounding car - coming from the bonnet vents, out the back from underneath etc. I sped off with the roar of the V8 echoeing around and the looks on the other drivers faces was priceless!

Yes I tried not to let the panic show as people walked passed me on the high street. I sat there for about 1 minute until I could pull into the local petrol station with a kind of 'It's perfectly normal for such a fire breathing, fuel guzzling snarling V8 to do this every now and then' look on my face.
I think my open lower jaw gave the game away though