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At Tagg Lane Dairy, Bakewell ready for the off

All loaded and ready to go.

Lovely evening for a drive

Last weekend with some fellow TVR’s

Roughly 6-8 at the moment

Just ask the police to blur out your reg number if it goes to court.

It's not as frightening as you think it is.... I've had my Westfield 18 months and was not mechanically competent at that point. With help from here, I've re-plumbed the cooling system, re-wired part of the dash, fixed a carb issue and today I replaced a lower ball joint in the front suspension. Ask questions, plan and give yourself plenty of time to do the task. Don't overload yourself with lots of stuff at once. Occasionally you have to buy tools, but that's part of the fun!

The wife will though! 🤣

Just booked for me and the missus in the campervan full weekend. I’ll have my vehicle pass available if anyone needs one as I don’t think I’ll bother towing the westy all that way down.

The team are all ready to roll and checked in on WhatsApp Live location-

Ready to pack all this into the car............deep breath Bagpuss, you'll can fit it in! All in and ready to roll. To prove we learn from past experiences, I'm carry a few extra things this year. Keep following to find out what.

Full cage, 13s on the rims, what's not to love

Well at least I stopped for the young lady! Can’t speak for the approaching Merc though! 🤪

Oh and, don’t panic! EVERYSINGLE step of the above, there are either already loads of posts on how people have tackled them, or loads of members who can help guide through the processes with the most common engine/driveline combinations. Where a car has been bought second hand, it’s not always clear just what make of parts it has. So another tip, take loads of pictures and post them up, when asking any technical questions. Not only will people be able to identify what you have, and sometime, even someone with eagle eyes will spot something not quite right. Rare but has happened a few times over the years. But it’s meant the potential problem could be fixed before it became an actual issue.

It’s worth diving in there and having a go, at least once; Westfields are much easier to work on with relatively simple tools than anything under twenty years old, production car wise, it will build your confidence hugely, and more importantly it’ll help you get to know the quirks and so on of your individual car. When a car is completely new to you, it is worth, unless you’re confident of its history, doing all the fluids just so you know what’s in there now, and have a baseline for dates going forward. Cambelt too, if it has one, equally “fan” belt, (though these days it’s really often just the alternator and water pump, on many engines). Exactly how each job is done will depend on the engine, gearbox and diff you have fitted. Many of the commonly used gearboxes and diff’s as Steve said, don’t have drain plugs, as in their original car figments, they were often considered filled for life, with only top ups required. A hand operated vacuum oil extractor can make life massively easier with these. Assuming a road and moderate track day car. So, engine oil and filter, coolant, brake fluid, belts, change then continue to change at the original makers “harsh” service intervals. (If using hard on frequent trackdays, reduce those intervals a bit more) Clutch fluid, if hydraulic, then check at annual service, but should be ok for quite some time, at least a couple of years, and four or five plus, is common. Gearbox and diff oil. Unless you’re either competing or very heavy track day use, many of the Westfield figments will really just need periodic checks and if necessary top ups. If used really really hard, then maybe a full change every 24000 miles or so, but that’s an exception, really. Note though, if you do have a gearbox etc like the Honda in the S2K cars, it does have a drain point and manufactures service life. Not an oil change as such, but unexpected if used to modern cars. The prop shafts on many/most Westfields have grease nipples on the universal joints. You need a grease gun, (not expensive) to squirt fresh grease into these to keep the joints in good shape. Obviously, check all brake pads/shoes for even and acceptable wear and service life, as well as checking for wear and pitting in discs etc. replace as necessary. Check things like the rubber bellows on the steering rack and rear drive shafts for any signs of wear or splitting. (Cheap to replace if required, and again a quite reasonable home job). Battery! The standard Banner batteries used in perhaps the majority of Westfields when first built, are NOT sealed for life, maintenance free types! Check immediately if you have this sort of battery, because they get forgotten about by younger, (less than middle age) owners, as it’s such a rare thing on a tin top, these days. There are little removable plastic plugs in a row on top, (there may be a cover or trim over them). Remove them and check that the electrolyte fluid inside the battery is covering the metal plates, within. If not, top it up with deionised water, (again, cheap enough from car parts places, even Halfords) And finally, Westfields are an old fashioned car in certain key ways. They do not have all the Noise Vibration Harshness treatments modern cars do - it’s why we love them! The downside can be a slight tendency over time to unscrew themselves. Though use of threadlock, lock washers and lock nuts massively reduces this. But, it’s still important to periodically, ie not just once a year for a service, do something called a “spanner check”. This is literally just going round making sure all your key nuts and bolts are still properly tight, paying particular attention to steering, brakes and suspension. (It’s something you’d also do ahead of and perhaps after a trackday, or a big road trip. While to write it out like this makes it look a huge list, it’s really not! And because of decent access for 90% of it, it’s not too complicated to do.

I’m sure you’ll see me about when down that way! - need to find some good drives out Newbury area (ideally with a cunningly placed pub off course). 🙃

Nice summer shot

Unlikely as we're not even going to Verona ! Though I plan to meet my 3 good friends, who I consider to be Gentlemen at a certain Ice Cream vendor in the peaks on the first day. Based on our previous behaviours overseas, there's probably many reasons we shouldn't be considered Gentlemen 😂 Here's our George Clooney lookalike, AKA Tiffany, appearing to be gentlemanly- Those that know him better, will workout he's trying to get her knocked over by the approaching TinTop so he can nab her purse!

When and where do you meet up with the gentlemen?

Have a great day @Snappy & @Rob_spalding 🍺🍺

A cracking weekend heading over to Gairloch Friday evening with enough food to feed an army lol great to meet up with the lads from Englandshire lol, a couple of call offs meant we lost 3 cars from the weekend. Saturday saw cars fuelled , drivers and passengers fed then a fantastic day out with William Merrilees riding shotgun, 244 miles on some lovely roads around the north west of Scotland with 10 kits ,a jag, an mx5 and an Elise , enthusiastic progress was made, and great weather to boot!! Sad to lose a couple of cars to mechanical gremlins ( a non starter after lunch, and a lost gearbox filler plug) lunch was at the Pier cafe in Lairg who were absolutely spot on with us all and the break down. Weather was great with a bit of cloud over the Struie coming back to gairloch with many sporting westy tans now lol

Very nice! If I am correct I think I admired this car at the Westfield Factory open day? As it was up for sale. Great looks and spec! Congrats.

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