Greating Comrades! I am in Lada Trouble.

**jrandom** · 18th September 2006, 23:13

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

I had one of the 4WD's 20 something years ago.

Ja. I done seen a Niva embarrass a pair of Land Cruisers. True story.

I'd still never own one, of course. No cup-holder.

**Lou Girardin** · 19th September 2006, 07:03

Originally Posted by Fish

Ja. I done seen a Niva embarrass a pair of Land Cruisers. True story.

I'd still never own one, of course. No cup-holder.

You don't drink vodka from cups. The bottles sit nicely on the floor.

**Motu** · 19th September 2006, 08:51

Bottles fit nicely in the fire extinguisher bracket under the seat - for a car with no extras,they sure fit in a lot of extras you don't see in normal cars.

Driveline vibration in Niva's was always a problem - the transfer is very close to the gearbox,just connected with a donut and the transfer pivots on it's two mounts,torque reaction putting load on the gearbox and giving the vibration...the mounts were adjustable and we used to mark them before removing the transfer.One of our customers had a bracket he got from England,it went on the rear output of the transfer box and stopped the torque reaction,and he used to go on and on about how his Lada was so much better than everyone elses.

So one day I did the rear gearbox seal on it,marking the transfer mounts before removing it - then I found the reason for the oil leak,the drive flange bolt was loose...most were,and no one bothered with the oil leak because they parked on dirt or gravel.But not Mr Fusspot,he had a concrete drive.Of course when I got it back together it had the normal driveline vibration - he was really pissed off,accusing me of putting it back together wrong,and bringing it back several times for me to ''fix it''.I tried to tell him that the loose drive flange was allowing it to float and take up the movement of the transfer,but he was having none of it...it was all my fault,it just proved what a useless rip off mechanic I was.

Customers,just don't you love 'em? Fortunatly the problem was resolved when he back down his drive and over the bank and wrote it off.