Because of length (I think) I am reposting this in two parts for the TR list
only.
Hi everyone,
While on my way to the kick-off dinner Friday night (after having driven
from Detroit to Janesville, Wisconsin in my 1976 TR6 for the start of the
run), I hear a nasty clunk from the back of the car on acceleration and
deceleration. I just replaced the differential bushings (or bushes, or
whatever those poly donut-shaped things are properly called) last week, so
I'm thinking one or more of the nuts vibrated loose. We're all in the
parking lot with a gigantic flashlight snooping around the bottom of the
car, which is parked so that one half of it is up on a curb, and Pat Barber
notices the rear axle crossmember's weld to the frame have all broken. Yes,
all of them. So the back end of my car is essentially "floating" until I
hit a bump of some sort, when it crashes back to the frame. That's number 19
in this illustration: http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/tr6/images/130a.gif.
Sitting for three hours in Chicago traffic, 1st gear, clutch out, brake,
repeat, probably helped to further stress whatever cracks were in the weld
to begin with when I left Detroit. So the car is parked, will be flatbedded
to Milwaukee, where it and I will board the Lake Express ferry to Muskegon
Michigan and I will likely drive the car along the interstate, albeit
carefully, back home come Monday morning. If there's a bright side, it's
that I'll be now pulling navigator duties for Mike Bilyk in his Aston
Martin. Call it a free upgrade. Well, maybe not so free.
Continued...
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