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Re: Installing Shock Absorbers

To: "C. Donald Emery, III" <tr6@mail.icongrp.com>
Subject: Re: Installing Shock Absorbers
From: Jeff Nathanson <jeffn@msystech.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:52:46 -0600 (MDT)
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Don,

        I don't know the particulars on Koni's. But, when I replaced my
        front shocks, the spring had to compressed. Or else, the symptoms
        you desrcirbed occurred.

        Jeff N.
        '73 TR6


At 11:10 AM 6/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>List Members:
>   I took advantage of TRF's sale to order a set of Koni shocks for the
>front of the '69 TR-6.  The current shocks appear to have been installed
>around 1977 and were completely shot.  I removed the left front shock
>yesterday afternoon following the instructions in the factory manual.  The
>problem is installing the Koni.  If the top of the Koni is through the hole
>at the top of the mounting area, then the mounting brackets attached to the
>bottom to the Koni will not align with the 4 mounting studs.  If the
>mounting brackets are attached to the 4 studs, then the top of the Koni
>will not slide through the hole at the top of the mounting area.  Is there
>a technique that I don't know of that will help?  Will using a spring
>compressor help align everything?  Do you just muscle it until the parts
>align?
>   As always, thank you in advance for your help!
>                                   
>                                       Don Emery
>                                       1969 TR-6
>                                       CC 27639
>
>


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