Reply to: RE>TR6 Q: bad u-joints?
Welcome to TR6 ownership. You may have bad U-joints. To find out, jack up the
car and support it on good jack stands. Crawl under there and check each
U-joint by holding each yoke of the joint, one in each hand, and twisting. If
you observe substantial play (a 1/16th of an inch is ok), then you have found
your problem. There are six u-joints, two on each half-shaft, two on the
drive shaft. You need not replace them all. For some reason, u-joints don't
seem to wear evenly.
*But*, u-joints are probably not your problem. While you are under the car,
get a good flash light and examine the front differential mounts. In all
likely hood, the left front mount is broken. A discussion of how to repair a
broken mount is beyond the scope of this reply (can you say "frame off
restoration"), but if that turns out to be the problem, call the Roadster
Factory. They'll sell you the necessary stuff.
Scott St. Clair
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Date: 6/29/95 10:12 AM
To: Scott St. Clair
From: Jeff Wagner
My TR6 resuscitation project has been going along well enough that
I've been able to drive the 4 miles to work and back for several
weeks with only a dozen or so breakdowns-- pretty reliable, I'd say.
Once I got the old Monza exhaust with quarter-sized holes replaced
with a Falcon stainless system, I could actually hear the squeaks
coming from the rear of the car whenever I engaged or disengaged the
clutch while driving. Then today something in the rear started
knocking whenever I was on the throttle. I limped home and parked
the car. Am I seeing the signs of U-joint failure, or is there
something else going on there?
Jeff
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University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7011
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