----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Newell" <steven@newellboys.com>
To: "Triumph" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:39 PM
Subject: TR4 rear end: identify the bad sound and win
> My '62 TR4 has had a gentle clonk on change of direction for a couple
> years, but this evening on backing briskly out of the garage it had a
> horrible clonkety clumpety sound, and though I couldn't repeat the
> clonkety sound driving gently forward or back I sensed a woobly feel at
> the left rear end, sort of a hesitation or sense of dragging.
Steve-
Hate to say it but I'm diagnosing a blown spider gear. I hope I'm wrong
for your sake......
Tim Hutchisen
71 TR6- in pieces
80 TR7 Spider (no relation to Steve's diff!)
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