George,
If you had steel retaining clips for the dust boots, then you may
have TR6 calipers on the car. Check for letters cast onto the
outer half of the caliper near the brake line. If it says "Type 16BP"
then you have late TR6 calipers, Moss repair kit #583-110.
Also, if they are 16BP, the calipers had metric threads for the
pipe fittings.
At 07:08 AM 9/5/98 -0700, George Richardson wrote:
>
>Yesterday I learned that my front caliper assemblies on the TR3 aren't
>the originals. They seem to match the drawing in the Moss catalog of the
>TR4 caliper. However, Moss and TRF both supply the same rebuild kit for
>TR3, TR3A and TR4 calipers, while the dust seals on my calipers are
>different.
>
>I can't seem to get the new dust seals to stay in place. The old ones
>were held in by metal rings, but I can't get the rings onto the new
>ones. Anyone got any advice?
>
>Also, does anyone have an opinion on this conversion? Is it better,
>worse, no change? The pads are smaller, and the disc size for the TR4
>should be smaller as well, although I haven't yet checked to see if the
>discs have been swapped.
>--
>George Richardson
>'57 TR3, TS15559L - painting and reassembling....
>http://www.merlingroupinc.com/tr3.htm
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