When I dismantled my wobbly, rusted '59 TR3 in 2004, it had been sitting in a
shed since 1974. I took snapshots of everything to help me remember how to put
it back together. Since then, I've looked at countless other pictures searched
from various sources as I repaired this or that. I imagine we all have. What
I never realized and didn't realize I didn't realize until I realized it...heh
heh...was that the return spring for the accelerator linkage connects to a
little tab on the firewall.
All these years I'd been using a hole I'd drilled into the manifold heat shield
with a guesstimated spring strength. The angle I'd been using was seems to me
weaker. Plus the replacement spring I ordered is about 25% stiffer than the
one I'd been using. Result was the car never consistently dropped back to true
idle.
Now for the first time I'm probably getting the true "feel" of how an original
TR3 operated.
We keep learning new stuff, huh?
Terry Smith, '59 TR3A TS 58667
New Hampshire
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