Hi Paul,
The grease seal number for the TR3 REPLACEMENT Trunions is the same seal number
as is used for the
TR250 and TR6.
I wondered the same thing. This grease seal is asymmetric having a longer skirt
on one side than the
other. By inspection of the old and still assembled right side of my TR250, I
concluded that the
"longer skirt" side of the grease seal should go down.
I am in the process of disassembling the right side now, and will see which way
around the seal
originally went. I'm the original owner so I know it is stock and original.
I'll know sometime this week.
Don Malling
Paul Dorsey wrote:
> Hello,
> I am sorry I alarmed folks into thinking that I was rebuilding my front
> suspension without any help from manuals! That would be foolish indeed!!!
>
> Instead I was using a Moss Catalog illustration to show me what I was doing.
> My usual procedure in attempting my TR3's restoration is to read the
> particular applicable section of Roger William's "How to Restore a TR3" once
> or twice (the queen's-tongue is often thick!) and examine all it's photos,
> then with a Moss's catalog in hand I feel confident with my slow exacting
> pace. Prievously I've studied my CD of Bentley's, my (overly difficult)
> Haynes Manual and Kenneth Ball's Manual. The green and white diagonally
> striped book has been examined and is located within my domicile somewhere.
>
> So when I said, "I can't find my manuals", I should have added, "but, I'm
> using my Moss Catalog et al". It may also be attributable to my laziness
> that I take liberty to ask the list questions which I can't tell from Moss's
> illustrations or that William's doesn't address. All the other books are
> lingering somewhere.
>
> Which brings up the question:
> I can't tell which direction the seal shown in Moss's as No. 12 on p.40 is
> suppose to go. If it faces up like it holds water or rather grease or is it
> go down so that is lips over the brass Trunnion?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Dorsey
> 60 TR3A
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