CLANK X1V: The Clankster Clanks Again
This weekend I was tuning the TR2 up, and running it around the
neighborhood, and I noticed a funny thing: it STILL CLANKS.
********** ARGHHH!!!! **************
So I guess this means the problem was in the transmission all along. Which
is weird, since I rebuilt it a few years ago. Oh, well. Guess I'll have to take
it out and apart again. Probably have to change out the input bearing. Sigh.
Wonder if I should replace all the bearings and synchros again. Double sigh.
Wife was fit to be tied when I told her... "You're going to be spending MORE
MONEY?????"
- Jerry
p.s. LATE BREAKING REPORT! IT"S NOT THE TRANSMISSION, ITS THE STARTER!!!!
Apparently, the starter pinion is vibrating into contact with the flywheel!
Whatever spring is keeping it retracted has seen better days. I found this out
last night. As a last-ditch experiment, I pulled the starter out of the car,
and restarted the warm engine with the handcrank. I then drove around the
neighborhood. No clank. No matter how vigorously I set off from a stop, No
Clank. Folks, I burned rubber with a screech, and NO CLANK!
So now I need to rebuild the starter drive. Made the call to Moss this
morning for parts,and hopefully, I'll be putting it together this weekend!
p.p.s. No, I'm not sorry that I rebuilt the engine. That wasn't done to fix
the clank, it was obviously necessary from mechanical inspection. So there.
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