Jim,
Have you removed the olive nut and compression sleeve from the bottom end of
the stator tube? Those serve to anchor the wire harness in. I just went
through this recently so drop me another note if that's not the solution.
Dave Moag
62 TR3B
77 Spitfire
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Jim Bauder
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 1999 4:06 PM
> To: TR List
> Subject: TR3 Control Head problem
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> Listers,
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> I ordered a new control head from TRF. This is the horn push, turn
> signal switch and harness that feeds down through the stator tube. The
> instructions are rather simple. "After removing the grub
> screws holding
> the old control head and disconnecting the bullet connectors, the
> control head can then be withdrawn." In a pig's eye!!! So far we've
> broken two of the four wires trying to pull the harness through the
> stator tube. It moved about two inches and refuses to budge a
> millimeter
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> more. We stopped working on it because I was afraid if I
> broke any more
> of the wires I would never be able to remove it. We sprayed WD-40 down
> the tube thinking that it might dissolve the gunk, rust, or
> whatever is
> holding up the old harness from coming out, all to no avail.
>
> Have any of you folks had this problem? if so what did you do? Ideas
> from any quarter are welcome. I am truly baffled.
>
> Jim Bauder
> '58 TR3 in fewer and fewer boxes
> Palo Alto, CA
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