Really? I'm looking right at them and they look like Phillips heads. The
screwdriver seemed to fit okay, but the problem was the TREMENDOUS amount of
torque required to back the screws out. My guess is that the 30 years of crud
accumulated on the end of the screw and when it got carried into the threaded
steel hole, the brass deformed and ruined the threads. (That is unless there
is some other reason that Brass hardware gets locked up after 30 years)
What does posidrive look like? I notice that your comm number is from a later
TR6. Any chance that earlier cars (mine was made in FEB 1970) were using
different hardware?
>>>>>>>
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:48:48 -0600
From: Peter Zaborski <peterz@merak.com>
Subject: RE: Three strikes and I'm out.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Tilton [mailto:sdtilton@yahoo.com]
>
> So I thought I'd do a quick repair this evening and
> change the lock cylinder on the trunk of the TR-6.
< snip, snip >
> Despite my best efforts (and blisters) the philips
> heads deform.
Scott, not to throw salt on your wounds or anything but...
This comes up every so often...if they're factory original, they're not
philips screws, they're posi-driv. If you use a posi-driv bit/screwdriver,
you won't strip the screw heads, at least not as easily. Most (probably all)
of the Phillips like screws on TR6s are in fact posi-driv. You wouldn't use
an 8 point socket on a hex bolt or nut right? The posi bits should be
available from any decent hardware shop. Get #1, #2 & #3, they all used on
the TR6. Should be cheap and will help in avoiding mangling those wacky
screw heads in the future.
HTH
Peter Zaborski CF58310UO
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