Randell,
I bought a rebuild kit from TRF (800-234-1104) a while back (and still have
it). Not sure if they're in stock now.
Jim Davis
Fortson, GA
CF38690UO
CF37325U
Randell Jesup wrote:
> [ I arise from a Triumph-list slumber of months... ]
>
> "Dr. Robert Carley" <rcarley@uoguelph.ca> writes:
> >I don't know about the GT6, but on the TR6, the top wishbone hanger
> >(pinion), can be reversed to allow more or less camber. Would this be
> >possible?
>
> Certainly that sort of problem would cause this - it's easy to
> install them backwards too. Some cars (Sprites) have an offset upper
> knuckle; if installed backwards you'll have massive positive camber.
>
> The other option is that the uprights are too far apart. On the
> TR6, there's a bolt-in cross tube between them - mine had 1/4"+ shims
> between it and the towers(!) when I bought the car.
>
> On my '70 TR6:
> I'm fighting the typical "not quite disengaged" problem with
> my TR6. Master rebuilt over the weekend, no joy. Slave will be rebuilt
> this coming weekend (new slave pushrod/clevis too); I'm hoping the casting
> is ok. I get 98+% disengagement (very slight drag). Master clevis was
> replaced; master pushrod isn't too ovaled (pedal is a little, not much).
> It's been getting slowly worse for the last 10 years. Probably the
> standard slowly-cracking fork pin; I'll deal with that this winter,
> probably (and rebuild the trans while I'm at it). Of course, it got
> to the annoying point right when the Merkur and Rover SD1 were both broken.
>
> I had a fuel pump diaphragm failure last weekend - a drip every 2
> seconds, 2 per second while running. Luckily I had a stock replacement
> pump I'd been given by a friend who has a PI TR6 - the pump on my car was
> Italian(?), and obviously made for a TR6 - the connections were in exactly
> the right positions, even though the pump was 1/2 the size of the stock one
> (the inlet/outlet were on "pillars"). Anyone know if there are rebuild
> kits available for them? (So I can have a working one on the shelf again.)
> This was the first failure of the '6 in 2 summers of 2-3Kish miles.
>
> --
> Randell Jesup, Scala US R&D, Ex-Commodore-Amiga Engineer class of '94
> Randell.Jesup@scala.com
> #include <std/disclaimer>
> Coats food: <Call your U.S. House Rep. and ask them to oppose CDA II>
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