Hi Listers,
Success! Various listers gave advice to get the blasted engine up enough to
replace the mounts, so now the new TRF mounts are installed and the new fan
belt is in place (hard to believe this whole escapade was to change a fan
belt....). I had to jack up the frame a bit to get the tubluar crossemember
in place, but all is good and the car is back on the road at last. And it
looks like the new motor counts fixed an occasional clutch chatter. One of
those mounts was in bad shape......
Thanks to everyone for the advice and encouragement. The Other Woman (as my
wife calls it) is now zooming around back roads in VT once again.
george loriot
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From: Sally or Dick Taylor [mailto:tr6taylor@webtv.net]
Sent: Sat 6/30/2007 2:10 PM
To: Loriot, George
Cc: 6pack
Subject: Re: [6pack] more on fan belt clearance
George---As you probably figured, it's more important to move the engine
back, as it is up. Holding the engine's position are the two front
mounts and the rear mount (at the transmission tail) It's possible that
the one at the rear may be keeping the engine from shifting back, but
these rubber mounts are usually pretty flexible.
Exhaust pipes aren't typically mounted in a rigid fashion, but it may be
worth looking under the car to be sure this nothing's welded firmly to
the frame.
The front mounts are slotted at an angle, so you'll want to position
these in a way that lets the engine go back the farthest. When you have
done this, there should be around 9/16 inch of clearance between the
belt pulley and the cross tube and the steering rack.
Altho you shouldn't have to do this, you could loosen the four (u-bolt)
nuts that hold the steering rack in place and lever it forward, just
enough to slip the belt in.
Dick
From:
George_Loriot@Brown.edu(Loriot, George)
Hi Listers,
Don't want to be a pest but I'm still having problems with the fan belt
clearance on my 76 TR6 (1/2" fan belt doesn't clear steering rack). As
you folks have noted correctly, the front engione mounts were sagging,
particularly the right side, so I got new ones (TRF "no-sag") and am
installing them. Still have problems, what am I doing wrong?
Everyone says to loosen ther mounts and jack up the engfie. So I did
that,...
George Loriot
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