Michael Hering, congrats on your test drive! I also have
a '67 TR4A. I'm not sure of the original color, but it is
now mostly Thunderbird Metalic Blue. Two summers ago, when
it was time to repair the floor on the driver's side and
install the o/d that came in the boot, I discovered the
transmission cover was the original fibre with goobered
glassfibre. I agree with Roger Garnett about carpeting
being nothing more than a moisture trap.
Because the clutch is hydrolic, there isn't really any adjust-
ment to it. But, mine is also in the (I think) the top hole.
The push rod on mine is not of the adjustable type. I thought
that was common to the TR3, not 4.
Noisy valves! Another friend says that these four cylinder,
pushrod engines should sound like busy sewing machines!
(Hello, George Haynes!) Are you certain the valves are
lashed correctly? I have a very lumpy idle below 1K.
But, we believe there is something hotter than a street cam
in mine.
Maybe by the end of this summer I will be able to change the
boot lid on mine. Seems that the current P/O drove his '74
BGT into the back of the TR4A last summer after replacing a
brake line in the B. (Forgot to pump the brake pedal!)
Last two nights I have been struggling to rebuild the clutch
master on the B. The hardest part was getting the pedal cover
off! I know I shoul also reduild the brake master while I'm
in there, but, I AM fighting shipwrights'!
Alan
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