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RE: [TR] Early TR4 - Rear Brake Cylinder Installation

To: <lbc.resto@comcast.net>, <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: [TR] Early TR4 - Rear Brake Cylinder Installation
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 08:58:07 -0700
> When I took the rear brake cylinders off the car the dust seals were
> not present (probably rotted out in the barn). My original Haynes
> appears to show the seal between the backplate and under the cylinder
> slide-in locking fittings. The Moss catalogue shows the seal over the
> top of those fittings. Which is correct? If it is over (per Moss)
> then the opposite end from the handbrake lever would appear to just
> flap in the wind.

The lever end doesn't stay in place so well either.  In this case, I believe the
Haynes (and the factory workshop manual) got it right.

Randall


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