[6pack] Lowering Ride Height on late model TR 6

[Terry Geiger]

Triumph literally raised the bumpers on the later TR6s.  Early sixes (74 and 
earlier) had the turn signals above the front bumper.  Late sixes had the 
turn signals below the front bumper (starting in '75).  I'm pretty sure the 
ride height did not actually change, only the height of the bumper itself.

MG's solution was to raise the ride height to get the bumpers higher, which 
did hurt the handling because the center of gravity was higher.

Terry Geiger
www.GeigerGarage.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michael lunsford" <mblunsfordsr at yahoo.com>
To: <6pack at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 2:25 PM
Subject: [6pack] Lowering Ride Height on late model TR 6


> Ok, I have tons of responses relating to some type of modification to the
> stock springs to reduce the ride height which I agree doesn't sound like a
> good idea.  Thanks to everyone for your ideas.
>
> I guess where I was thinking of going with this was:  If the early cars 
> were
> lower than the late cars what did the manufacturer change to increase the
> bumper height?  If they could raise the height of the car, what would it 
> take
> to lower it?  Knowing how cheap Standard Triumph was it probably was 
> pretty
> simple.  Of course it may be just me that's simple.
>
> Mike Lunsford, 1970 TR 6
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