Folks,
After a long period of "thinking, and what-if'ing" develoment, and with a
great deal of list input, and the help of an entire school-district's
skills' center staff, plus employment of long-forgoten engineering skills,
I have now have a design of a rear-hub removal tool that might do the job
of the wonderous Churchill tool illustrated in the factory manual for the
TR6 (and earlier cars as far back as the TR3, but maybe the TR2, I
believe). I can't guarantee that you will appear to remove the hub with
such "savoir faire" as seen in the TR6 manual, but it will be close.
I have used the tool designed by me and a colleague (Robert Espinoza) with
great (well, once anyway) success to separate a TR6 rear hub (and after the
rebuild, the car, and the rear end, is running great). I now have a
detailed engineering drawing for those who are tempted to make their own
version of my "beast" of a tool, and a "how-to" document detailing how I
undertook the task.
A number of listers have already chased me down on this one, and have a
copy of both the "beast" drawing and the "how doc." Now the information
seems to be both readable and receivable to most users, I am happy to send
the 2 files to anyone who is interested.
Let me know, and I'd be happy to send the files, but given the list
limitations (well on the Triumph list anyway) on attachments, send me an
email, and I'll send you files directly: you will receive the Microsoft
Word 6.0 descriptive document file, and the Hub engineering drawing in WDF
format (you will need to have AutoCAD 14, or you can load the free
www.autocad.com WHIP4 browser plug-in to read the AutoCAD 14 drawing, and
print it out on your computer, and with the later solution, you will not
have to buy the full $2500 AutoCAD package!).
Tony Gordon
72 TR6 (mine)
80 Spitfire (son's)
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