best advice my father ever gave me... "Boy... if ya got a girl, or ya got a
car, ya got trouble..."
WST
----- Original Message -----
From: <Eganb@aol.com>
To: <Triumphs@autox.team.net>; <british-cars@autox.team.net>;
<tr8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:48 PM
Subject: TR7 BFH#33
> Do you have any idea how much I hate learning valuable lessons these days?
I
> was so smug at having gotten the transmission/engine back into the car
this
> weekend that I was unbearable.
>
> Well, it caught up with me. Tonight I discovered that the slave cylinder
> push rod that acutates the clutch lever was jammed against the rear engine
> plate when we reassembled engine/transmission, and like an idiot I didn't
> check to make sure it was free before dropping said engine/transmission
back
> into the car.
>
> I finally managed to pop it loose, and of course the whole clutch lever
> assembly popped off the fulcrum pin inside the bell housing....
>
> Stifling a tremendous urge to either throw up or set the car on fire, I am
> attempting to calmly determine my next course of action. Needless to say
the
> transmission will have to come back out to see if anything was damaged,
and
> to reset the clutch lever. Surprisingly the push rod doesn't appear bent
of
> damaged.
>
> I'm thinking that taking out the transmission by itself is preferable over
> pulling engine/transmission back out again. I have a floor jack that I
can
> support the transmission with, and jack stands I can use to lift the rear
of
> the car up high.
>
> All in all a terribly disappointing evening. And to think that all I was
> going to do tonight was re-attach the speedometer cable.
>
> Suggestions for proceeding, and locations of discount liquor stores most
> welcome at this point.
>
>
> Bruce
> 1980 Inca Yellow TR7 5-speed convertible
> Chapel Hill, NC
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