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RE: TRF gearbox cover and rear hubs

To: davcla@ix.netcom.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: TRF gearbox cover and rear hubs
From: Richard_Ceraldi-ERC004@email.mot.com
Date: 27 Oct 95 09:56:22 -0500

>In your experience,  what have you found to be the 
>best heat shield for the inside of the cover,  how did you attach it?
>Also,  I was wondering if anyone had an opinion as to wether or not it 
>would get hot enough to melt if I went ahead and put it in until I 
>Found a suitable solution?

  I went to a heating supply distributer in Dalls and bought something 
called "BOILER WRAP". It is a high density neophrene looking material about 
1 inch thick. The sheet I bought was enough to do at lease 3 GT6s'.
After cutting the appropriate shape it was attached to the inside of the 
cover with contact cement (3M spray in a can).  Pieces were also places 
between the carpet and the firewall. I can't tell you how much cooler it is 
in the cockpit of a GT6 with this insulation added. 
   This has been in place for 3 1/2 years and shows no sigh of deteriation 
or melting. The only thing I would of done different was not to place it in 
the area on top of the clutch slave. It conforms to the shape and makes it 
real difficult to remove the slave bolts . I will probably try and get cut 
that away this weekend.
   For all the purist out there I saved the funky oily plastic bag filled 
with fiber that was supposed to insulate this area for future genreations to 
marvel at!.
Richard
71 GT6 
78 Moore 24




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