Graham...My .02 worth re your trans noise. You've three possible sources (1)
the inut shaft bearing (2) the bushing in the rear of the input shaft where
the nose of the output shaft rides or (3) counter shaft (or cluster gear)
bearings. You may be able to confirm (or deny) the input/output connection by
dropping the driveshaft from the trans and turning the output shaft w/ the
trans in neutral. If it's noisy, it is probably the bushing - major tear down
to fix. Beyond that it's pull the tranny time. May be able to diagnose the
input bearing by messing with it with the trany out, but you gotta drop the
cluster to get it out...starting to look like rebuild time.
HTH
Bill
'70 6
>===== Original Message From "Vink, Graham" <vinkg@fleishman.com> =====
> I was deep in the bowels of my 72 TR6, trying to discover why the overdrive
>didn't work when I discovered the problem -- no overdrive unit!
>
>I would guess at some point the previous OD had blown up, and rather than
>replace it, some DPO merely installed the non-OD transmission extension. The
>car was OD originally -- has the switch, badge and wiring.
>
>So ... where do I find an A-type OD without a core to exchange? (It's
>A-type, right, for that year? Also, is it the same A-type that's found on
>some other European cars of that era -- Volvo, etc?)
>
>Also mulling whether to buy a rebuilt tranny and OD as a unit ... existing
>tranny has GREAT synchros, but is very noisy when idling in neutral.
>
>Thoughts, o wise ones? (beyond to look under the &*^*&^*(^! car the next
>time to see if the OD is there!)
>
>(BTW, I bought this car on E-Bay about a year ago from a small dealer ...
>I'm pretty sure he didn't know the OD was missing, and he had fully
>disclosed to me that the OD was not working -- ie nothing happened when he
>drove it and flipped the switch.)
>
>Graham
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