Skip,
The TR4 Workshop Manual has a step by step procedure with a drawing to show
how to remove the body.
They show attaching cables, by the use of custom plates attached to the
hood hinge mount points on the front inner panels and to the seat belt
mount points on the middle of the rear interior wheel wheels. The drawing
shows the cables being brought together to single hook and the car body up
off the frame and engine.
I have no idea whether this is smart or not but that is what they say in
the manual. If you opened the doors.... I would guess that the whole thing
could fold.
Brian Sanborn
62 TR4 CT16260L - Groton, MA
My TR4 Restoration Web Site
http://www.net1plus.com/users/sanborn/Triumph.html (under construction)
E-Mail: sanborn@net1plus.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 10:32 PM
Subject: Major TR250 progress and some questions (seats, body, IL
registration)
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>
>Folks,
>
>Thanks in large measure to help from many people on the Triumphs list, I
am
>on the home stretch. You may recall that I needed to tear down my TR250
to
>fix one wishbone and add gussets all around. That went swimmingly. I had
>some suspension parts powder coated (Fred Thomas, I'll send stuff to you
>next time, I promise!). The undercarriage is about finished.
>
>The engine and transmission went back in last Friday. Most of the brake
>lines went in over the weekend (or was it yesterday? the days have been a
>blur). The suspension and steering took a few days because I wound up
>disassembling both sides at the same time to get the p/c done. The notes
I
>took were not as useful as they might have been because I wrote them
>assuming I'd always have one side or the other together as a reference. I
>wound up doing and undoing some stuff. Thank goodness for my TRF parts
>manuals (I have a clean indoors one and a now very dirty garage copy) and
my
>Haynes manual (now my dirty garage manual, complemented by my TR6 indoor
>manual) I got the steering rack in yesterday. The suspension was finished
>off this evening (springs, shocks, brake calipers, flex lines).
>
>At this point, I have to put the body back on, install the radiator and
>hoses, hook all the wiring and steering bits back up and install the basic
>interior. Then I can start fiddling with the engine and make a first pass
>at front end alignment (then probably take it somewhere for something more
>accurate).
>
>I have two questions. I was a bit disappointed that the BL TR6 repair
>operations manual I just got says nothing about removing and refitting the
>body. I was led to believe that it did (maybe earlier or later ones do?).
>Now that I'm at that point, I'm a bit in the dark about holding the body
>fitting pads and strips to the frame while placing the body on the frame
>(contact cement? silicon caulk?), whether or not there should be any sort
of
>glue between those fittings and the body, and whether there are any body
>alignment issues. There was some sort of soft white gunk under the
washers
>and bolts that connect the body to the frame in the cockpit, presumably to
>ward off water and noxious fumes. What was it? What should I use during
>reassembly?
>
>Are there any tricks to lining the body up or does it basically plop right
>into place? Will the body mounting kit I bought from TRF be sufficient or
>are there some other "as required" pads or shims that I will have to buy
>more of?
>
>I ordered two new seat diaphragms and hooks. I'm going to be driving the
>car from Albany, NY to Chicago, IL in about a month, so I figure the extra
>support will add substantially to my comfort. I think I saw something
here
>awhile ago that suggested that I could replace the diaphragms without a
>complete tear-down of the seats. Any tips?
>
>Looking ahead a few weeks, I'll be a novice Illinois driver in the very
near
>future. I'm wondering about a few things. Can someone clue me in on
>inspections required in Illinois? I haven't registered the car in New
York
>since 1995. I think if I register it here they will make me pay the fees
>for the intervening years (96-99). I'd like to avoid a NY registration
>altogether, if possible. Can I register it in Illinois, get some sort of
>provisional sticker for necessary inspections and temporary license
plates,
>then drive it to Illinois? I will be in Chicago on June 25th, so I can
>probably spend some time in the appropriate DMV lines if necessary.
>
>Again, let me thank everyone who's helped me get to this point. Most of
you
>don't even know you helped me. I spent about a month just catching up on
>digests of the list I hadn't read (about six months' worth), soaking up as
>much information as I could find that I thought would be appropriate. I
>will single out Randall Young for thanks. He really demonstrated service
>well above and beyond the call of duty. He has answered several questions
>about fairly complex tasks, especially about spring removal and
replacement
>- it went quite easily after I overcame the fear of an exploding
suspension
>on that first spring!
>
>This whole exercise took more time than I expected (doesn't it always) and
>occurred over a much more compressed timeframe than I anticipated. Once
we
>decided to move and sold our house, I had to get my butt in gear. I think
I
>have completed in about a month what I expected originally to take all
>summer to do. There is nothing like a strong external stimulus to evoke a
>strong response!
>
>Skip Montanaro | Mojam: "Uniting the World of Music" http://www.mojam.com/
>skip@mojam.com | Musi-Cal: http://www.musi-cal.com/
>518-372-5583
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