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RE: BJ's

To: "Susan and Jack Brooks" <tr3a@att.net>, <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: BJ's
From: "Ken Gano" <triumphs@consolidated.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:57:13 -0800
I have the TR4-TR6 upper arms and the TR4 trunnions on a TR3A.  It's not
adjustable, but it does give a fixed three degrees of castor.  Now, what was
the original question? :)

Ken Gano


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of
Susan and Jack Brooks
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:11 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: BJ's

Nick,

I found all the details.  It was the series III, not the II.  They are as
follows:

Use the late TR4-TR6 upper arms, with a Jaguar Series III ball joint to
provide
adjustable caster & camber.  You must use with the late TR4 trunnion that
has 3
degrees of caster built in to it.

Again, I have no personal experience with this arrangement.

Please let me know if anyone confirms this arrangement, off list.

Thanks,

Jack

***************

Nick,

I believe what you are looking for is the Jaguar Series II upper ball joint.

The setup I am aware of is for providing adjustable caster to a TR3.  This
involved the use of TR4 upper arms (so it'll work for a TR4 also) and a
Jaguar
Series II upper ball joint.  The joint is narrower than the TR ball and
needed
to be shimmed front or back to move the pivot point accordingly.

I don't recall where I became aware of this combination of parts, but since
I
have not yet executed it myself, so you may be well advised to wait for a
confirmation from the list, before buying the ball joints.  Sorry I couldn't
be
more definitive, but until I do it myself, it's hear-say.

Can anyone confirm the Jaguar Series II upper ball joint is what Nick is
looking
for?

Later,

Jack Brooks

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Malaboge@aol.com
>Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:47 AM
>To: fot@autox.team.net
>Subject: BJ's
>
>
>Fellow Modifiers-
>
>A while back someone mentioned some thinner upper ball joints from (I
>think) a Jag of some sort that would fit the big TR cars. Now that I
>have carved up a set of trunions to give more castor, I need these
>thinner joints in order to move the upright!
>
>Never one to let it rest...
>      Nick in Nor Cal
>
>Why is it that if the label says take two tablets, its always shake
>none, shake one, shake one, shake three...BUT if its take one its
>always shake none, shake none, shake two!

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