Hey,
I went to work on my TR6 this weekend. I experienced some bad karma.
I then did the right thing.
While my engine is out of the car (again), I thought I'd take a few
moments and change the steering rack bushings from stock rubber to
Urethane seeing as I have a kit with all the bushings in it.
First, I wanted to see how "loose" things were. I grabbed the rack and
tried moving fore/aft. No play there. However, the rack did rotate when
twisted and it also moved side to side a wee bit.
So, I get under the car and look at the bolts. As I suspected, 23 years
of time had bad effect on the U-bolts and nuts that hold this thing
together. I applied liberal amounts of "liquid wrench" and let things set
for about 20 minutes.
In short, I made about two turns with the wrench and the u-bolts broke
off. Yep, those suckers were rusted! Good thing I have the parts cars for
spares...
At that point my assistant showed up to help me re-establish my cam
timing, as I had just replaced the crankshaft last weekend...
So, before putting the oil pan back on, I thought I'd rotate the cam and
see how everything looked. All the lobes looked great. All except what
was left of lobe #12! The lifter was hammered and the cam lobe was worn
off about .025 or so.
#$*&. Now I have to replace the cam.
I determined that Sat. was not a good day to work on the car. So I turned
my interests elsewhere for the rest of the day.
As for fixing these problems, good thing I have all those parts cars!
The cam with the bad lobe will be "getting the treatment" a little later
this summer. I'll have 'em weld up the lobe and grind the cam to Z-19 or
S2 specs. In the meantime, I have a good '69 cam with surprisingly little
wear and a complete set of lifters from that car...
Sheesh. Good thing I wasn't doing anything too major!
It was bad karma.
later,
rml
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