Thanks for the info!
Guess that means I can replace my hoses now. Have a '70 TR-6 I bought new on
Oct 70 - still has the original hoses on it. Should probably quit tempting
fate.
Alternators - try checking the fan belt, may be slipping and show voltage drop
at idle.
>===== Original Message From Charlie and Linda Duckworth
<iiv000@mail.connect.more.net> =====
>Someone on the list asked last week about the color of the radiator hoses on
>the TR6. Bill Piggott's 'Original Triumph TR4/4A/5/6' refers to a moss
>green as being original. The heater hoses on my 1976 are moss green so I
>have to assume they're the original 25 year old hoses. The new Roadster
>Factory sale catalog came last week and I ordered a set - nine hoses (seven
>hoses are green and two small ones are black) with original style clamps
>part number for 75-76 is WHS63. They arrived this week, to me TRF did a
>great job in matching the original green color and external roughness of the
>originals.
>
>Charlie
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