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Re: TR6 thrust washer tools

To: "The Stretz's" <ccfarm@tranquility.net>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: TR6 thrust washer tools
From: "Bob Kramer" <rgk@flash.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 07:55:10 -0500
I bought mine from JC Whitney a number of years ago. I can't remember how
much, but it was substantially cheaper, and works.
Bob Kramer, Austin TX
Hill Country Triumph Club
TR6x3, TR250 x3, TR3A vintage race
rgk@flash.net

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> From: The Stretz's <ccfarm@tranquility.net>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: TR6 thrust washer tools
> Date: Saturday, September 06, 1997 3:47 AM
> 
> This is probably more of a shop-talk query, but I think it pertains to
> fellow TR people too:
> 
> I'm getting ready to lay up the TR6 for a day to swap out the thrust
> washers.  (Seems trendy, doesn't it?)  
> 
> I'd like to know where I can get a good dial indicator set.  My local
> machine shop supplier and Snap-On guy both said they would be happy to
> sell one to me for a couple hundred bucks!  I can't see spending that
> kind of money for a tool that I'll use once every 8 months.  Has anybody
> had any luck with any particular mail-order house?
> 
> I thought about looking in a pawn shop, but I felt that would be a good
> way to buy something that's been dropped on the floor.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chad Stretz
> 73 TR6
> CF7511U

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