triumphs
[Top] [All Lists]

RE: Plunger Overdrive Boot

To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Plunger Overdrive Boot
From: "Brian Sanborn" <sanborn@net1plus.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:18:33 -0500
Hi Listers,

Quantum Mechanics has the new rubber boots

Brian Sanborn
'62 TR4  CT16260L-O - Groton, MA

My TR4 Restoration Web Site
http://www.net1plus.com/users/sanborn

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of elliottd
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 2:02 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Fw: Plunger Overdrive Boot


> Randall <ryoung@navcomtech.com> wrote
>
> > And while we're on the subject, does anyone know of a source
(or
> > substitute) for the rubber boot that seals the plunger ?
> >
> > Randall
>
> Way beck in the late 80's, the original rubber boot/seal on
mine got torn
so
> I removed it.  Never could find another.
>
> When I bought my new spare solenoid, it came with a new rubber
boot on the
> plunger.  It would pull up, but then it would stay jammed up !!
This was
> because the new boot on the new solenoid doesn't have the flex
bellows on
it
> like the original one had and it hangs up.
>
> So I removed the rubber boot seal.
>
> In all, with the old original as well as the new solenoid, I've
driven
> 60,000 miles in 11 years with no rubber boot on the plunger.
Never had a
> problem.
>
> Just make sure that the plunger stop that is cast into the
aluminium
housing
> for the O/D is still there (sometimes they get knocked off
dragging the
> gearbox across the shop floor) or else the plunger will fall
out and you
> will never find it again in the middle of that 6-lane Freeway.
If the
stop
> is gone, bolt on a bit of sheetmetal in the shape of an "L" to
make sure
the
> plunger stays where it should.
>
> Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A
> Montreal, Canada

///  triumphs@autox.team.net mailing list
///  To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net
///  with nothing in it but
///
///     unsubscribe triumphs
///
///  or try  http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>