Ditto with Dave, a single wire hose clamp is doing a great job 3,500 miles
later, fits well and looks neat. I too was looking for a more engineered
fit, but never found it on any of the examples that I looked at.
Bill
Bill Beecher
'58 TR3A TS30766L "Tarbaby"
www.triumphowners.com/1566
'68 Land Rover Series IIa 88" "The Beast"
"Hello, my name is Bill and I own an old British car. Now...What are the
next 11 steps?"
-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Dave1massey at cs.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:11 AM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [TR] Tr2 or tr3 steering boot install tips anyone?
I just used a hose clamp and clamped it to the outer steering shaft pushed
up against the firewall. We'll see how well that works.
Dave
In a message dated 3/27/2012 6:36:58 AM Central Daylight Time,
ccsimonsen at gmail.com writes:
> Now to install the boot. The old one was a swollen hard nugget of
> black goo.
>
> Short of using lots of contact cement are there any words of wisdom?
>
> My column is in place so I slit the boot at the bottom and used black
> Max to glue it back together.
>
> On the firewall, there is only one screw near the top and no insert
> in the lower hole. I'm not sure if it's used for the install.
>
> Do you trim/cut the boot to slide the edge in the metal slot bracket
> thing on the firewall.
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