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Re: [TR] TR3/4 Tranny What did this UPDATE

To: "Terry R Smith" <terryrs@adelphia.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] TR3/4 Tranny What did this UPDATE
From: "Ed Oot" <eoot@citlink.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:38:25 -0500
Terry

A possability, but based on the size of the bulge it put in the case it 
would have had to have been a pretty big pebble, and I don't see how 
anything of much size could make it past the flywheel. Sure is baffling.

GO PATS

ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry R Smith" <terryrs@adelphia.net>
To: "'Ed Oot'" <eoot@citlink.net>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 6:00 PM
Subject: RE: [TR] TR3/4 Tranny What did this UPDATE


> >You may recall that I found that I did not have an inspection
>>plate and we are surmising that whatever it was was ground up and spit out
>>under the flywheel.We did find alot of scarring inside the housing.
>
>>Would appreciate any thoughts on this. I have pics if anyone would like to
>>see. If I have missed anything I'm sure John will chime in.
>
> Ed, just a wild guess.  If you're not finding anything missing inside, if
> you didn't have an inspection plate, would it have been possible for 
> gravel
> pebbles to have gotten kicked up into the housing, where the drive train
> turned them into pinballs bouncing around in there?
>
> Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
> New Hampshire:  Go Patriots!



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