Bob :
I've got that issue on my desk at work. The article was written by
Marty Lodawer (WOTTATR@aol.com) and I think was in the January 99 issue
of The Triumph Tribune, the TRSC newsletter. The test unit was built by
Herman van den Akker, who is fairly famous (at least in the club) as a
machinist par exellance. However, I'm pretty sure the tranny mounts to
an aluminum plate that Herman made, and the article stated the speedo
was from a Spitfire.
Randall
"Robert M. Lang" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One advantage to being a newsletter editor, is that you swap newsletters
> with clubs all over the place... and you see some neat stuff from time to
> time.
>
> Hopefully, someone on this list has also seen the article to which I'm
> about to refer....
>
> One of the S. Cal club newsletters recently featured an interesing "gizmo"
> that a club member had built in order to test transmissions and
> specifically O/D units with the 'box out of the car.
>
> Having also suffered from installing a tranny of unknown history into my
> car a few years ago, I too agree that having known the thing was frigged up
> _before_ I put it in the car would have been extremely helpful, not to
> mention relieving a lot of stress before that 2000 mile trip to Prince
> Edward Island and back!
>
> BTW, I didn't have the time to rebuild the "other" box for that car 'till
> after the long trip, and that screwed up 'box is still in the basement
> ready to be reassembled with the $400+ worth of replacement parts because I
> didn't have time to work on it 'till it was waaaaaay too late.
>
> At any rate, the gizmo to which I referred to is set up with some sort of
> electric motor that turns the input shaft on the tranny. The tranny unit
> itself was mounted to what appeared to be a stock TR rear engine plate,
> and there was a control panel for the input shaft revs as well as a TR3
> speedometer... very slick, and functional in appearance.
>
> If anyone cares about such a device, I could post more about it including
> the info about the author and the club, providing I can _find_ the
> information now... ;-) But maybe we could get the club to send the info
> into the VTR web site or something (or post it on the S. Cal. club web
> site, if such a thing exists.
>
> Bye.
> rml
> p.s. one of the drawbacks to being a club newsletter editor is that you
> have to work on the newsletter instead of you car... oh well. Right now, I
> need to work on the car... Portland, ME or Bust!!!
>
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