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RE: TR3 rear spring

To: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: TR3 rear spring
From: "Michael Marr" <mmarr@nexant.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:46:43 -0500
> No.  But the 'stud' is designed to be removable.  It's actually a pin that
> goes through a tube in the frame, and the head is tapped for an extractor.
> Lots of them have "become one" over the years, but I was able to get mine
> out.
>
> Ken G. once told me that the dealer mechanics, rather than
> messing with the
> extractor, would drill a hole through the sill and use a drift & BFH to
> drive the pin out.  Afterwards, they just stuck a chrome plug in
> the hole &
> return the car that way.
>
> Randall
>
Yes, I have heard that too, but on the two TR3A's that I have had to do this
to, I was able to remove the pin from the tube with the application of the
BFH and drift.

Michael Marr
Naperville, IL
1960 TR3A

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