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RE: Transmission synchro question

To: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Transmission synchro question
From: Doug Mathews <mathews@uga.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 20:40:24 -0400
I talked with TRF just the other day and I was going to order a TR3 synchro 
ring and the person I talked with said they had plenty in stock but they 
were all on hold.  Might be the answer to the question.

Doug

At 04:16 PM 5/30/2005, you wrote:
> >       I'm curious if anyone has had a similar experience?  Also, could
> > anything else could cause this condition beside the synchro ring?
>
>I've not had the experience, but weak springs in the shift hub could cause the
>problem, as well as using the wrong fluif.
>
>Legend has it that there were a bunch of bad synchro rings made a few 
>years back
>... which AFAIK are still being sold by major suppliers.  Opinions vary as to
>what exactly is wrong with the rings (obviously the vendors claim nothing is
>wrong with them), but I know of at least one transmission rebuilder that 
>refuses
>to install "new" rings for that reason.
>
>Randall




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