In a message dated 97-06-11 01:00:52 EDT, fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Chip Old)
writes:
> > G) Brakes - disc front (modified over the model run), drum rear ( 9 or 10
> > inch shoes)
>
> The TR4 never used 10 inch rear drums. The switch to 9 inch rear drums
> was made late in TR3A production, at commission number TS56378, and that
> size was used from then through the TR6.
>
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Thanks, Chip. That's right. They were having trouble with the rear brakes
locking up and so went to the smaller diameter. BTW - lesson for me - I put
the "or 10 inch" in the sentence at 1130 pm after looking at the Haynes
Manual (p178) - which manual I have now corrected. :-)
A quick check, this lunch time, of my other sources shows 9inches from TR3A
(TS56378) through the TR250's. I assume you are right on the TR6 since I
have only a little data on those.
SO - I should have left the "or 10 inch" comment out and double checked my
other sources last night.
For all - this shows how easy it is to go astray unless one cross checks.
(If I had ordered a set of 10inch rear shoes - and the catalogues do list
10inch shoes although for early TR3's - I would have had to return the 10inch
ones and wait for a re-shipment). Haynes manual (on p.178 under TR4 specs.)
needs to be corrected from 10 to 9 inches.
Art Kelly '64TR4 CT33118L
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