From: Pat <pleask@mailhost.wlc.com>
>At long last got the TR4 A out of it's winter hibernation. I figure it is
>time to attend to the "Clunk" I get when slowing down at a stop sign. I
have
>traced it to having to be the rear wire wheels and splines. There is simply
>nothing else it can be.... (Famous last words)
Not in the brakes themselves, eh? Brake shoes or pads that slide around a
bit are suspect. How did you eliminate this possibility?
Have you been able to feel any radial play if you
jack the tire off the ground
set the handbrake
attempt to rotate the wheel by hand
?
>At this point I just do not want to (and can not afford... all cash to my
>TR3) to buy new splines/rims etc.
On TR cars, the splined hubs are cheaper than the wire wheels by a great
deal.
>"Assuming" that the front splines are okay how tacky would it be to move
the
>front splines to the back and the back to the front ? Hoping that the front
>ones will be okay for a few years.
Tacky or no, I don't advise it. Loose spline-wheel fit can't be tolerated
on any corner. The brakes will beat up on the spline in the front as well
as the one in the back, and the situation will get steadily worse.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
Daughter Amanda has presented us with a second grandchild. Sirena Mae
Stremski
arrived on the first day of Spring 2001, weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces.
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