It is also not uncommon to find the welds cracked on the brackets that the
steering rack attaches to on the TR6.
Marty
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:50:52 -0500
> From: lang@isis.mit.edu
> To: sherryjimmy6116@att.net
> CC: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] TR CHASSIS FATIGUE - A CAUTIONARY TALE
>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, sherry robyn wrote:
>
> > Do TR6s (1974) have this weakness also?
>
> Speaking from personal experience - YES!!!
>
> I had a shock tower fail during practice for a national tour event. The
> metal split near the top of the box that forms the mount for the
> upper crossmember and the upper fulcrum pin mount peeled back a lot. I was
> lucky that the result was nothing more than a camber gain of 10 or 15
> degrees!!!
>
> Also, watch where the square tube brace that angles down to the frame
> butts. That was cracked on both sides, maybe because of the other failure,
> but coincident to it. And I was doing frame checks fairly often. Now I do
> them after every event.
>
> I'm with Joe on this - RATCO is a good alternative!!!
>
> regards,
> rml
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