When I wrote that post, it originally said," had and still has the locating
dowels", however, when I proof-read it I thought the language to be
somewhat stilted, so I deleted the present tense. And yes, the dowels are
present after my car's 2nd clutch job.
As a relative neophyte to TR clutch repair jobs in 1981, I somehow managed
to realize that the locating pins were there for alignment purposes.(
Wasn't my first clutch job). I'm not sure why they seem to
have disappeared on some cars, I can only surmise that a DPO or other
ignorant person had them removed and replaced with bolts or nothing at all.
I just don't believe that the factory stopped using them for a while and
then started again.
My entire purpose for the post was to supply info regarding Kai's
supposition that Triumph stopped putting dowel pins in TR6's and to supply
direct info from an original owner who's BTDT- got the T-shirt.
:-) Back at you!
At 03:30 PM 1/3/2005, John & Patricia Donnelly wrote:
>Hmmm. Since you used the past tense, does that mean the dowels are now gone?
>:-)
>
>John
>
>On Monday, January 03, 2005 9:36 AM, Jeff Johnson
>[SMTP:mondoluxe@ameritech.net] wrote:
> > That is an interesting theory Kai, however, my late production ''76 TR6
> > had the dowels when I did it's first clutch job in 1981 when the fork pin
> > broke.
> >
> >
> > Jeff Johnson
> >
> >
> >
> > At 07:26 AM 1/3/2005, Kai M. Radicke wrote:
> > >Randall, have you considered that the dowel bolts were never there in the
> > >first place?
> > >snip>
> > >Now if we were to assume the simplist explanation, based on what I have
> > >observed, the only reasonable assumption is that Triumph removed the dowel
> > >bolts from TR6 production.
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