Rob, I can't speak to your questions about the rack. But I did just put an
electric fan in.
Here is a link I found with some instructions:
http://www.geocities.com/hottr6/triumph/tr6fan.html
Since I plan to drive my car in some CA heat, I was loath to remove the
mechanical fan, so I left it in and mounted the electric as a pusher fan. I
prefer the redundancy and I hate the sound of electric fans - so it will
only run when the mechanical can't keep up. I hate the sound of a boil over
more than an electric fan.
I bought a PermaCool 16 inch "high performance electric fan"
http://www.permacool.com/Catalog/Cat_page16.html The instructions above
refer to a "standard" electric fan. I can tell you that the "16 inch High
Performance" fan will not fit as a puller because of the front cross member
and without shortening the mechanical fan's crank shaft extension.
The fan fits in front of the radiator with about 1/2 inch of clearance at
the bottom and about 1" from the ducting at the top. I actually bent the
tips toward the radiator a small bit to give a little more clearance at the
bottom.
These fans come as the fan and mounting hardware only, so you will need to
purchase a thermostatic switch, relay inline fuse, etc. In addition to the
thermal switch I added a toggle under the dash to turn it on manually.
Keith Meinhold
66 Marston Avenue
San Francisco CA 94112
415 585 5998 H
415 336 5336 C
415 836 7775 W
http://www.navyboy.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Rob Pennington
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 8:50 AM
To: 6pack@autox.team.net; triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: quick ratio rack installation problems in a TR6
Hi,
I've got a Moss Europe quick ratio steering rack that I went to install in
my TR6 two nights ago. Here's the story to date and, if anyone has
suggestions, I'd appreciate them.
The quick ratio rack comes with it's own solid mounts, which hold the rack
much higher than the standard rack mounts. When I went to put it in, I
found that the fan extension was too low and the rack wouldn't go up onto
the mounts.. Okay I thought, I know what that is and replaced the motor
mounts with new ones that I got from TRF sometime back and was waiting for
an excuse/reason to put them in. This brought the engine up some but not
enough for the rack to be installed - the fan extension was still too low.
A quick email to Moss got an equally quick and fairly detailed response on
installing the rack and that they had heard of this but replacing the
tired, sagging original mounts with mounts from Moss took care of it for
another customer recently.
So I went back out this morning to look things over and it appears that the
engine mounts can be installed with one way holding the engine just a
little higher than the other. So I took them out, turned them over and now
the engine is just a little higher but not quite high enough yet to install
the rack. And if I did manage to squeeze it in, as soon as the engine
started sagging in the mounts a little bit or bucked, it would bang the
rack. The image of the fan extension whacking the rack or slowly grinding
its way its way into the rack doesn't appeal to me very much. <grin>
Has anyone else installed one of these racks? If so, do you have any
advice?
Do the big three all supply the same mounts?
Any other suggestions? I'm considering taking the fan extension off,
having a spare one cut down so it doesn't extend into the area where the
rack is at and putting in an electric fan. Does the extension do anything
besides hold the fan out next to the radiator (balance, etc.) I can't see
it but thought I'd ask since there are folks on the list who actually know
about these things.
Comments or help would be appreciated.
Rob
74 TR6 daily dribbler
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