Jeff asked: What is
>the best shop manual for the TR6?
>
>Jeff Hapke
>'74 TR6 Daily Dreamer
..to which I would answer, seriously, any / all you can find. The Haynes
and Bentley are the best-known. There's an older manual called Six-Tech,
now out-of-print, which was available thru the 6-Pack club, and which in-
cluded many fix-at-home options and alternatives to common problems.
Some of the hardbacks available thru TRF (for example) have useful info
and photos of rolling chassis and production changes etc.
TRF's parts book doubles as an assembly manual, with all the exploded
drawings. These drawings of the TR-6 frame should help you see why having
your jacks located behind the front wheels would tend to flex the frame.
If you inspected the front suspension mount area for cracked/broken/loose
inner mounts & gussets, as well as the rear swing-arm mounting area, and
found no obvious pot-hole or rust damage, I suspect your frame may be in
fairly good shape. Go back to that boxed-in section ahead of the diff,
if you can jam holes into the frame with a screwdriver, or it looks like
Swiss cheese under there, then yes, you have problems, but usually the
worst part is at the outer swingarm bracket area, on the driver's side,
probably because that's where most of the splash & road salt found a
place without sufficient drainage.
Good luck,
Tom Tweed
SW Ohio
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