Hasbeen
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When I grease my 7s & 8s racks, I pinch a nipple out of the Ferguson tractor. I don't know the size, but at least I know where to find one. Our cars may have no longer shared an engine with the Fergy tractor as did the earlier 4 cylinder models, but we did still share that grease nipple. On the same tack, I found the diaphragm in the engine driven fuel lift pump on my 1950s Fordson super major tractor [4 cylinder diesel] fits the fuel pump on the 7. The Fordson pump overhaul kit in Oz cost just $15, & reliably available. This is somewhat cheaper, & less bother than a new pump for the 7, that cost $128, & pumps excessively high pressure, causing carb flooding. Hasbeen
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I have the Nissan Skyline complete rear end in the 8. This is exactly the same unit as the Holden unit, but is narrower, & will fit without cutting down in length. I had the brackets off a spare TR7 diff cut off, & welded to this diff, & fitted a complete new centre at the time. It cost me about $3000, & has completely transformed the handling of the 8. With over 300 BHP it does require driving properly, as the traction can simply push the front off the road if you try to play the slow in & floor it technique. With the power, it had to be strong too. Designed for a much heavier much more powerful car, it should be a fit & forget instillation in the 8.
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I didn't have to do anything with the upper links.
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The washers need to be a minimum of twice as thick as the average washers, but thicker is better. They must have a minimum O/D of the outside diameter of the end of the trailing arm. Again nothing that will fit on the body tang is too big.
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The bolts in the front lower control arm fittings had a thick washer under the bolt head & the nut. If a normal thickness washer is used they will not support the body tang enough to spread the load on the bush. Fit a very thick large diameter washer, & your clunk will magically disappear. I chased this clunk for months, until I saw a reference to the thick washer in the 1977 genuine Leyland manual.
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Before the days of synthetic oils, a friend of mine always used re refined oil, on the grounds that, as it was a mix of all of them, it would have to be better than half of them. None of his cars were good enough to last long enough to test the theory.
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Before the days of synthetic oils, a friend of mine always used re refined oil, on the grounds that, as it was a mix of all of them, it would have to be better than half of them. None of his cars were good enough to last long enough to test the theory.