Hi Dave:
I thought about that. It would end up costing about the same, but would take
me way off the Triumph standard. Yeah yeah, I know, and believe me I'm not a
concours guy. I just don't want to have to remember a whole pile of weird
things if a re-build comes up. The shortened drive shaft is dead custom and if
Richard gets out of the business, there goes that option. I know it will
probably last 500 years, but I really only like upgrades that are easily
switchable back to original in the weird event that the car becomes more
valuable as a collector in the future. Example my electronic ignition from
Crane Cams. Amazing upgrade, but easily reversed.
For the same reason I'm rebuilding my overdrive transmission rather than
switching to the Van Ackker (sp?) 5-spead toyota conversion, although it is
awfully tempting.
I am going to go with Richard's adjustable trailing arm brackets and the
triple stromberg upgrade. A very nice bit of work from the look of it and
easily maintained and/or reversed.
So, depsite a rather nice offer on a used diff, I've told the mechanic to go
ahead with the complete diff. I'll be dining on toast and re-fried beans for a
month, but it's a job I never want to revisit. I'm my sort of gloomy rebuild
history with my TR6 I come to accept the reality that shortcuts seem to end up
costing me more than the long way around.
Cheers,
Mark
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From: Dave1massey@cs.com [mailto:Dave1massey@cs.com]
Sent: Tue 05/07/2005 8:58 AM
To: Mark Hooper; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Differentiation of different choices for differential
In a message dated 7/4/2005 10:49:58 PM Central Standard Time,
mhooper@digiscreen.ca writes:
The conundrum is whether or not to replace the crown and pinion gears (a
rather expensive item) as well all the rest of the wearables. The car
has
been
driving very smoothly up until this noise has started. It probably only
has
a
couple of hundred miles on the noisy part, most of them at very low
speed.
The
mechanic tells me that some of the gears are a bit blue but have no
broken
teeth.
So the question is: can I just have all the bearings and seals
replaced, or
am
I fooling myself and really must replace the crown and pinion too? Alas
the
money is a concern at the moment so I'd like to save the $600+ dollars
extra
it will cost to get those gears here to Montreal.
Before you drop heavy $ in your differential go have a look at Rich Good's
offering. He modifies a Nissan differential that has posi. Go to
Goodparts.com and lookup the differential upgrade kit.
Dave
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