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Re: Parrish Insurance, speedo drive gear

To: "Daniel Elder" <Vitesse6@worldnet.att.net>, "Triumphs List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Parrish Insurance, speedo drive gear
From: "Bob Danielson" <75trsix@snet.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:25:20 -0500charset="iso-8859-1"
The last phone number I have is 800-274-1804. That's from about a year ago.
Bob Danielson
75 TR6 - Status at
http://pages.cthome.net/BobD

----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Elder <Vitesse6@worldnet.att.net>
To: Triumphs List <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 1999 9:35 PM
Subject: Parrish Insurance, speedo drive gear


>
>Does anyone have the correct phone number for Parrish Classic car
insurance?
>By the way, as a follow up to my earlier note about my Sports 6 Speedo
drive
>gear coming off the main shaft, The entire replacement can be done with
>trans in car. I removed the trans tunnel then unhooked the exhaust, drive
>shaft, and trans mounts. Then jacked up the transmission enough to allow
the
>tail housing to be removed. I found that the speedo drive gear was off of
>it's raised shoulder on the main shaft and did not have a really tight fit
>on that shoulder when started to place.  I took a replacement gear from an
>old Herald gearbox (same part #). It was a tight fit on the shoulder. I
>placed an appropriate length of iron pipe over the mainshaft such that on
>end would drive the gear to place and the other end could be driven by the
>mainshaft rear nut and flanged/splined coupling. By turning the nut and not
>allowing the coupling to turn I was able to "press" the gear firmly on the
>raised shoulder on the shaft. I then removed the nut and coupling and
>reassembled the tail housing with a new gasket and oil seal. After putting
>the rest of the stuff back together the speedo again works. Now, as long as
>the gear stays put I'm OK.
>Dan
>


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