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Re: TR6 wheels on a TR4A

To: "Evans, Mark" <Mark.Evans@Anheuser-Busch.com>
Subject: Re: TR6 wheels on a TR4A
From: Malcolm Walker <walker05@camosun.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 17:13:34 -0800 (PST)
Cc: "'triumphs@autox.team.net'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Evans, Mark wrote:

> I will need to replace my lugs (studs) with the longer ones. This, I've
> heard/read, can be a real bear of a job on the rear hubs requiring all manner 
>of
> grinding and mechanical coercion.

Happily, you are wrong!  The IRS does not use the threaded-then-peened
rear studs.  They just press out, to my knowledge.

(When I bought a 'TR4 rear stud' from Obsolete Automotive, they sent me a
press-fit stud, it was in their books for a TR4A)

> I should buy my wife the new Dining Room furniture she wants before I do this.

Are you going to tell her *why* the new furniture arrived? ;-)

-Malcolm (unmarried, so far)
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