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Re: Cranks - The long & short of it.

To: John & Allison Cyganowski <janah@att.net>
Subject: Re: Cranks - The long & short of it.
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, John & Allison Cyganowski wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> I think the short backed late cranks started at CC50000. There are so few of 
> the long backed variety because they were in the TR250 and '69 TR6.  The 
> rest of the cars had the shortbacked crank.
> 
> "There are two TR6 cranks, early and late. Early is TR250 and TR6 through
> to about _CC75000_. Late is all CC75001 through CC82xxx (basically all
> '72's used the late style)and all CF1 through the end. If yo have a CP or
> a CR motor, the numbers should be the same as the corresponding CC/CF
> series. Early cranks are called "long tail" and late cranks are called
> "short tail" interchangably with early/late style."

I have a CC5000 motor with a short tail crank, so you're probably right.

My bad.

The HEAD changed at CC75000 (for the '72 model year).
 
> John Cyg. 

regards,
rml
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