Listers,
Many thanks for the advice on removing the radiator from a TR-3A. Now I
understand that the cowl should/must come off to get the radiator out.
Thanks for the responses : Bob Kinderleher, Randall, T.R.Householder,
Fred Thomas, Tom Fansher, Henry Frye, Mike Thompson, Dennis Cambell, Richard
Triplett, Bob Westerdale, Bob Labuz, Tony Rhodes and Ed Woods.
I am still not sure what T.R.Householder meant by "NO", or if he really
meant it.
I knew it was a dumb question, but miracles do happen and the listers
are a pretty ingenuitous lot (that might not be a real word) and you never
know what they have come up with.
There were several accusations of heresy for my wanting to put in a
recored radiator with no hole for the crank, and also on my wanting to
install an oil cooler. My local British car club meets in Bakersfield (an
awful place, but not as bad as people think) and I have a 5,500 foot climb
to get to my home in Bear Valley Springs (Tehachapi, CA), which must often
times be done on days when the temperature is over 110 degrees fahrenheit.
The White Wolf Grade (AKA Tehachapi Pass) is a really motor overheater and
transmission fryer, and a force to be reckoned with. That is also why I have
been asking questions about insulating the transmission hump!
I also like to eat lunch with a good friend that works at NASA Dryden
research facility at Edwards AFB in the desert, and I have been known to try
to replicate Ken Richardson's Jabbeke Hiway run and scorching desert days.
The real reason for not wanting to take the cowl off is that I have
found that everything is connected to everything else in a TR and once you
start taking them apart, it is hard to stop. Someone did that to TS75407L,
which they eventually just gave to me to haul away in a million pieces. For
them, it started as an engine rebuild and they discovered that everything
else needed rebuilding too, so apart it came (in 1980!). If I pull the cowl
of TS72747LO for the radiator, I am liable to pull the engine and rebuild
it, and repaint the engine compartment, then while that is all out, I might
pull the body off of the frame and paint the underside.
What I really want is to just enjoy my car over the spring & summer
(fall & winter too for that matter).
Happy and safe motoring.
Bill Brewer
Heretic TR pilot
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