I've had TRF green hoses on my 6 since the summer party two years
ago...still green and good shape.
I sent several of the clamps back as being too tight...decided against
using them where they weren'y visible anyway in favor of good old
American stainless clamps. If I had your suggestion back then, I
might have been tempted to use the longer screws.
Cheers
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Subject: TR6 Water Pump Question/Cooling System Update
Author: peterz@merak.com at Internet
Date: 5/19/97 12:34 PM
I just installed a new water pump on my 76 TR6. All seems well except
for one thing. The pump has a weep hole which I believe is designed to
point down. Of course I forgot about this and when I went to check if I
got lucky I found the weep hole pointing sideways instead :-(.
Is this a critical situation to rectify immediately or can I drive until
the fall when I will flush the system and replace the pump in the
required position?
I also installed the green hoses which TRF supplies as "original" later
TR6 equipment. All went and they really look quite nice in the engine
bay. I just wonder how long they will stay nice and green :).
The only glitch I ran accross is with the clamps on a couple of the
_large_ hoses. If you are familiar with the TRF catalogs, you know that
they (TRF) issue a warning about the clamps for the small hoses being
very tight so as to provide minimal exposure of the screw threads once
the clamp is tightened. Well on my car (a really late 76) the small
calmps all fit just fine. However I did have a problem with the two
clamps which go on the piece of steel pipe between the radiator bottom
and the thermostat housing. I had to use the screws from my original
clamps and even then the fit was incredibly tight. I would recommend
anyone doing this get a couple of longer screws for these two clamps.
Peter Zaborski
76 TR6 (CF58310 UO)
Calgary AB Canada
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