John -
one or more of your diffy mounts are busted. common malady; you'll have to
pull the diffy to fix that.
original/update - my theory of life is to update in the spirit of the time,
i.e., do updates that are appropriate to the time, unless, for example, it's
a massive improvement like Master's new wiring harness. i doubt you are
going concours, so make it nice, but don't do anything that will someday
make you the dpo like sculpting out the door handles.
good luck; nice car!
Oliver
----- Original Message -----
From: "siberian" <siberian@siberian.org>
To: "6pack List" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 9:12 PM
Subject: New TR6 update (diff mount and some rust!)
> Hi all,so today I finally got some spare time to play with
> my new TR6 a bit, its quite exciting :)
>
> A few items though. (pics are here :
> http://www.siberian.org/pictures/Day5/ )
>
> First off, I think a diff pin must be busted, if I apply
> power suddenly it feels like something is going to jump out
> from behind the passenger seat. "CLUNK!". I took a bunch of
> shots of the differential area, pins, U-Joint etc and it
> 'looks' ok but it is obviously not. I'll investigate more
> using some more formalized testing but if anyone see's
> anything wacky in the photos please let me know.
>
> The second item is rust. (GASP!). Yes, as amazing as it
> might sound this is a TR6 that has some rust. Today I
> strapped on my Makita drill, attached a wire brush drillbit
> and went looking for trouble. First the good news,
> everything that looks like surface rust is, in reality,
> surface rust. Very nice!
>
> The trouble came when I attacked the 4 or so small bondo
> areas around the rear deck. Yup, there it was, pinhole rust
> in the same spot on both sides, right where the rear deck
> joins to the wings. The good of this is that it is extremely
> localized (or so it appears) and everything else seems
> intact on both the inside and the outside and its very very
> structurally sound. It looks like the previous DPO attempted
> to stop the spread and succeeded.
>
> So, with these pinholes what is the preferred way to repair?
> I'm imagining its going to be auto-body solder or something
> like that but wanted to see what tips folks may have.
>
> The right wing is totally trashed. For some reason the
> previous DPO decided that it would be advantageous to apply
> 1/4" of bondo the the wing rather then just replace it. It
> must have gotten pushed in when the other front damage
> occured. I don't see any obvious frame damage etc so I think
> I am in the clear.
>
> Anyhow, everything is looking pretty nice so far outside of
> these issues. Its a really complete car, even down to the
> original plastic covers for the seatbelt bolts behind the
> shoulders. Current list of 'required new stuff' is a right
> wing, front valance, new dash pad and a new bonnet, oh and
> the interior of course. Pricey stuff but easy enough to deal
> with!
>
> Current dilemma - Restore to original or 'make it better'. I
> guess in the big scheme of things thats a good decision to
> have to make!
>
> Thanks for any tips comments warnings or suggestions on this
> car.
>
> John-
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