My problems seem to run in twos and today its the brakes and steering.
And for those reasons, I didnt lower my TR3 to the ground; although I did
get it running, sounded great!
Ill start with the steering: everything looks fine, everything
connected and it turns while raised off the ground quite easily. No real
chance for any rods or stuff to be out-of-place, besides I have the workshop
manual, Moss catalog and Yall. The front tires are 165s and dont touch
anything either. I rebuilt the steering box and all seemed to go in place
(those parts coming out is another story). The steering peg and arm seemed
to go its full run and 2 < turns lock-to-lock were achieved at some point!
But there ends the pretty picture- today on the driveway, where rubber
literally hits the road, it was only 1 = turns lock-to-lock of the steering
wheel. My protractor said the the tires could only turn 25 degrees to the
left and 15 degrees to the right. WHATS UP WITH THAT!
I raised the front end of the ground again and still had limited
steering. I started to take the lid off the steering box and oops, brown
90w started oozing out, why brown I wondered? I shut the lid to write
yall instead. Can someone please help me expand things? (browns ok but
the 1 = is NOT!)
Now the brakes: Im hoping I can stop the hemoraging left
caliper from leaking brake fluid by using a tapered bolt instead of the
bleedscrew that dosent quite fit as this one screw was bought at a junk
yard and bottoms-out. I think tapering the right size bolt will stop it
from leaking. Any BTDT accounts?
Still tweaking
Thanks, Paul Dorsey
60 TR3A
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