ATF flow / return

[Apache]

I've done a search, and come up with conflicting answers as usual.

Some people say the short rubber pipe is the flow from the 'box, others say it's the long one.

Which is it, really? Drivers side or passenger side?

[MattF]

Search for posts by mudskipper on the subject. He did his the wrong way around initially, so his final post should be right. I think it's somewhere in 'THE' thread.

[Apache]

Several more votes for 'right hand pipe' (passenger side)

I'll plumb it in tonight and see...

[MattF]

Several more votes for 'right hand pipe' (passenger side)

That's why it really p1sses me off when people say right and left instead of nearside and offside.

[Bogus]

That's why it really p1sses me off when people say right and left instead of nearside and offside.

Why on earth cant cars do Port and Starboard like aircraft and ships, then it doesnt matter which side your steering wheel is on or which side of the road you use.

Perhaps the forum should adopt it as a convention

Bogus

[KERRSURF]

That's why it really p1sses me off when people say right and left instead of nearside and offside.

Ah! In my line of work we always called the sides of the vehicles nearside and offside until we started building left hand drive vehicles for America and had to begin calling it left or right for every vehicle because of the confusion when talking to our American builders and agents. It also caused conflicts in the stores areas when restocking parts.

[Albannach]

Several more votes for 'right hand pipe' (passenger side)

That's the Near Side, which is the left.

[Apache]

Left or right from the drivers PoV, or from looking at the front of the vehicle?

[Albannach]

Ah! In my line of work we always called the sides of the vehicles nearside and offside until we started building left hand drive vehicles for America and had to begin calling it left or right for every vehicle because of the confusion when talking to our American builders and agents. It also caused conflicts in the stores areas when restocking parts.

Americans are stupid though...

[Apache]

That's the Near Side, which is the left.

Only in the UK, as is 'passenger side'

Left or right fromt looking at the front of the vehicle is best, but people just usually sau 'left' or 'right' without specifying the PoV.

But anyway we digress as per usual.

Any more votes for which side is of the rad is fed from the gearbox?

[Albannach]

Only in the UK, as is 'passenger side'

Left or right fromt looking at the front of the vehicle is best, but people just usually sau 'left' or 'right' without specifying the PoV.

If someone stands behind you and asks you to "lift your left arm up" (which you do), then said person walks round in front of you (your arm still raised) and turns to face you, has your raised left arm suddenly become your right arm?

Also, if the steering wheel is on the right side of a right hand drive car, does it change sides when you look at it from the front, or is it still on the right hand side of the car?

Right and left, Like Port and Starboard are always taken from a forward facing perspective.

But you're right (or is it left?) we digress...

[Apache]

Right and left, Like Port and Starboard are always taken from a forward facing perspective.

Except on this forum, where there's unqualified examples of people looking at the headlamp end of the truck and saying left, which is not the same as sitting in the drivers seat and saying left.

[Albannach]

Except on this forum, where there's unqualified examples of people looking at the headlamp end of the truck and saying left, which is not the same as sitting in the drivers seat and saying left.

This Left - Right thing should go in a sticky somewhere, the FAQ thread?

[Apache]

On this forum, which is based in the UK, 'nearside' / 'offside' should suffice 100% of the time.

[Chillitt]

On this forum, which is based in the UK, 'nearside' / 'offside' should suffice 100% of the time.

unless the conveyor belt is going the other way....