[Fot] Steering shaft u-joint TR-4

[Tylerpthompson at yahoo.com]

Mine has the old rag joints and safety wire.  Might want to change it out over
the winter.

Ty


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On Oct 15, 2012, at 7:49 AM, Joe Alexander <n197tr4 at cs.com> wrote:

> A pair of TR6 U-JOINTS has our replacement parts for the TR4 and Ambro.
>
> Note: I was side by side with an early Lotus 7, at the back straight at
> Mosport, when his steering went adrift. Interesting watching this drama
unfold
> all of the way to the Jersey barriers. Scraping stop to some damage and no
> injuries from about 100 mph.
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> Joe Alexander
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Babcock <ponobill at gmail.com>
> To: Mike Mehl <mike.mehl at yahoo.com>
> Cc: fot <fot at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sun, Oct 14, 2012 11:30 pm
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Steering shaft u-joint TR-4
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> With good reason. Nothing like having those rag joints come apart--say when
> you're doing 100 plus and aiming straight at some ARMCO barriers in the
front
> straight at Sears Point.
>
> The shaft size for TRs is pretty small too.
>
> On Oct 14, 2012, at 9:25 PM, Mike Mehl <mike.mehl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Tony
>> Look at Pegasus part number 1492-32.  I put those on my car.   I was
> worried
> about the rubber ones.
>> Mike
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>> _____________________________________________
>> From: Tony Drews <tony at tonydrews.com>
>> Sent: Sun Oct 14 18:53:25 PDT 2012
>> To: fot at autox.team.net
>> Subject: [Fot] Steering shaft u-joint TR-4
>>
>>
>> My steering shaft has two u-joints in it. The lower one is a big
>> beefy cast thing that I bought from Moss to replace the big beefy
>> cast thing that was there before. The upper one isn't quite as heavy
>> duty looking but does a much better job of actually clamping onto the
>> shaft. I've tightened the sh** out of the lower big beefy one and
>> it's still not as tightly clamped as I'd like.
>>
>> So... Where can I buy alternate u-joints for the TR-4 steering shaft?
>>
>> Look forward to the advice.
>>
>> Tony Drews
>>
>> PS - article on front suspension swap to TR-6 stuff is still coming.
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