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Subject: Spitfire front trunnions
From: David Templeton <davidt@opentext.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:35:32 -0400
As always, a little history to my questions :-) During a recent car show the
local club attended a gentleman came up to my wife and I.  He stated that he
worked on the Spitfire line at BL, sorry no name. 

He then proceeded to tell us a tale about the front trunnions and that after
a period of time if a front wheel took a real good jolt, like the one from a
pothole there is a good chance that the trunnion would come apart causing
the wheel to go off in a undisirable direction.  The reason he gave was the
straight cut thread and the angled thread of the trunnion. 
Before I get jumped on, I have not had the front end of the spit apart but I
did do the tr3a's and there the threads appeared to be cut similiar in the
trunnion and the upright creating a nice snug fit.  

Has anyone heard of such an issue? Something I (we), need to check on?  I
haven't heard of this kind of issue on any of these lists, and there is a
lot discussed on these list in 4 years :-P

Thanks
David Templeton
'74 Spitfire
'59 TR3a

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