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Re: TR4's

To: Chip Old <fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us>
Subject: Re: TR4's
From: Peter Barrance <trs@eagle.gsh.jhu.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 09:15:44 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> quickly, so in really bad cases almost no force is required to move the
> lever into reverse.  It's a long shot, perhaps, but could the rebuild shop
> have substituted a badly worn late TR6 tranny (or at least the shift rod &
> lever assembly from one)? 


Just for ref, I've never lifted the lever on my '71 TR6 when shifting to 
rev. Think it's the original fairly early gearbox. Perhaps I should be... 
No indication to that effect on the lever tho.

Chip - where is Cub Hill, btw? Is it near Parkville/Carney. There's a 
Cub Hill road there anywhere. Saw a blue TR4 there too. Could it be???



> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Chip Old                      1948 M.G. TC  TC6710  NEMGTR #2271
> Cub Hill, Maryland            1962 Triumph TR4  CT3154LO (daily driver)
> fold@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
>  
> If cars had evolved as fast as computers have, by now they'd cost a
> quarter, run for a year on a half-gallon of gas, and explode once a day. 
> 
> 

Peter Barrance



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