Steve,
Thanks for the tip. The trailing arm bushing are centered in the trailing
arm. When I first installed one side with my home made tool, I couldn't get
the bushings in that last little bit. I had those bushing pressed out and
re-installed at the local auto shop.
As far as the bump stops go, the ones on the trailing arm were a real pain
in the butt. I tried using vise grips, a pipe wrench along with liberal
amounts of PB Blaster to no avail. I finally ripped the top part of the stop
off, drilled out the stud and used a heil coil to re-thread the hole. The
stops on the frame were much easier! There too, I sprayed them liberally top
and bottom with PB Blaster and used vise grips to twist them out.
Hope that helps.
Marty Romagni
1974 TR6
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Hanselman <tr6@kc4sw.com>
To: The Romagni's <mrdr@buckeyeweb.com>; <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 11:00 PM
Subject: RE: Rear Suspension
> Marty,
>
> I'm guessing that not having the trailing arm bushes centered properly
might
> do that, on the other hand when I looked at mine(before I tore it apart) I
> could swear it looked about how you've described it. I assumed it was bad
> and my winter rear end repair project would fix it, now I'm not so
sure....
>
> BTW how did you get the bump stops off? I looked at mine and haven't
> figured out how to get them off.
>
> Steve
> 72 TR6
> tr6@kc4sw.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of The Romagni's
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 6:22 PM
> To: 6pack@autox.team.net
> Subject: Rear Suspension
>
>
> Hi fellow listers,
>
> I've just completed rebuilding the rear suspension of my TR6. I pulled,
> rebuilt and re-installed the differential along with new rubber diff
> bushings.
> I also put in the uprated springs, rubber spring packing, hard rubber
> trailing
> arm bushings, new bump stops and link mounting rubbers from TRF (shocks
and
> u-joints - ok < 6K miles). After I was lowered it to the ground, I noticed
a
> couple of things: 1) the drivers side tire sticks out farther than the
> passengers in relation to the body and 2) the gap between the top of the
> tire
> and the bottom of the fender "seems bigger" although I have no starting
> measurements to back that up.
>
> My questions are about the first problem. To confirm what my eyes were
> telling
> me, I measured the distance between the diff flange and the brake backing
> plate and found the drivers side does stick out farther than the
passengers
> side by about 9/16 in. I double-checked that everything is tight also!
What
> could cause such a noticeable difference? Should I worry about this? How
can
> I
> correct it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Marty Romagni
>
> 1974 TR6
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