Is this a first?

[JDNSW]

Doing a service on the 2a this morning. No need to add oil to any of the "gear things" - gearbox, transfer case, overdrive, diffs, swivels, and none transferring itself between boxes to a significant extent. The only oil I will be using for the service will be the engine and aircleaner, and the oilcan on things like door hinges and throttle linkage.

[oka374]

That's like when I was getting the blue slip for the Oka, the bloke inspecting it asked where I had wiped it all down underneath?
I said I hadn't (which wasn't true as I'd wiped it down in their carpark before driving it over the pit).
He called my bluff and said " its got a Pommy engine and gearbox and they never hold oil and alwys leak somewhere! "

[DazzaTD5]

Doing a service on the 2a this morning. No need to add oil to any of the "gear things" - gearbox, transfer case, overdrive, diffs, swivels, and none transferring itself between boxes to a significant extent. The only oil I will be using for the service will be the engine and aircleaner, and the oilcan on things like door hinges and throttle linkage.

so it only ran out of engine oil then?

[Slunnie]

That's like when I was getting the blue slip for the Oka, the bloke inspecting it asked where I had wiped it all down underneath?
I said I hadn't (which wasn't true as I'd wiped it down in their carpark before driving it over the pit).
He called my bluff and said " its got a Pommy engine and gearbox and they never hold oil and alwys leak somewhere! "

Sounds like me on the side of the road prior to the yearly roadworthy.

[p38arover]

On my '86 RRC, I took it to the local truck wash to have the underside steam cleaned before it's annual inspection.

[V8Ian]

On my '86 RRC, I took it to the local truck wash to have the underside steam cleaned before it's annual inspection.

Purely for the inspector's convenience.

[JDNSW]

My bloke is friendly and understanding, although he insists on things that are important being right - made me replace tyres on my trailer once.

[Johnno1969]

My bloke is friendly and understanding, although he insists on things that are important being right - made me replace tyres on my trailer once.

That's good to hear, John - and how it should be. Keeping a vehicle in good fettle is one thing, obsessive pedantry in inspection bays over a bit of residue on a gear casing or suchlike is another and doesn't really do much to save the world anyway...

My IIA hasn't done many miles, really, since its "Re-fit"......but despite an initial clean run of some months, a wee bit of oil drips here and there, now and then. Thank goodness we don't have annual inspections in Queensland. What a pain in the proverbial...

[whitehillbilly64]

'Thank goodness we don't have annual inspections in Queensland'.
Thought you were in NZ?

whitehillbilly

[sharmy]

Many years ago I used to sell Pommy trucks and they leaked oil but so did the German ones and the saying at the time was that" The Poms invented the oil leak but the Germans perfected it"