grease nipples

Well how low tech is that. I have just found out my car has grease nipples. 2 i am told on a TF and 4 on an F so some thing else to get done as it's never been greased in it's life

On the upper arms?

And very important too, fully filled mine with new grease, went a bit overkill, have seen many ones destroyed from lack of greasing ~ you have to remember that the suspension on the F came off the Metro, introduced in the eighties :oops:

Cue lots of schoolboy titterings..... Nipples! :woo2: I'm in favour of them. :yesnod:

bryan young wrote: And very important too, fully filled mine with new grease, went a bit overkill, have seen many ones destroyed from lack of greasing ~ you have to remember that the suspension on the F came off the Metro, introduced in the eighties :oops:

I can't think of many 80s cars that had grease points in all honesty.

Rover did cling on to ideas long after everybody else had consigned them to history; the K-Series being a great example being a "ladder" construction engine that everybody else binned around 1945....

Regards,
Andy

Great where are they ?

Got pictures for an F.
REAR
FRONT

Thanks for info. Knew about the front ones but somehow missed the info on the back ones. :broon:

benham wrote:

bryan young wrote: And very important too, fully filled mine with new grease, went a bit overkill, have seen many ones destroyed from lack of greasing ~ you have to remember that the suspension on the F came off the Metro, introduced in the eighties :oops:

I can't think of many 80s cars that had grease points in all honesty.

Rover did cling on to ideas long after everybody else had consigned them to history; the K-Series being a great example being a "ladder" construction engine that everybody else binned around 1945....

Regards,
Andy

Ladder construction or sandwich construction?

If you refer to the main bearings being in a ladder rather than separate caps, it is now modern design practice to do this in other engines, for example the Ford Duratec HE uses it.

The sandwich construction (through bolt) in a road vehicle was pretty much unique to the K series and was one of the reasons it is a fairly lightweight engine.

The K series was a Honda design too :woohoo:

The front one has a nipple at each end on each side :oops:

bryan young wrote: The K series was a Honda design too :woohoo:

Don't think so. Designed by Powertrain. A wholly Brit company. Unless I got it wrong again. Google it.

Honda can take the blame for the Honda 50, the Burma Railroad and The Bridge on the River Kwai. Ask Alec Guiness. And similar atrocities. Lots of, actually. And just to finish, the iconic Honda DOHC motorbike engine of the sixties and seventies was designed by a Brit. Because BSA, who he worked for, said it was stupid. Oh well......

Gotta love the Japs. Then again...... No. You don't.