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Re: [Spits] Rear Vertical Link

To: <parrotthead01@comcast.net>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Re: [Spits] Rear Vertical Link
From: scotts junk <smacsjunk@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:27:09 -0500
hi Dan



Yep, apparently the suppliers all copy the same drawing from the factory
manual, which several decades some poor technical illustrator got slightly
wrong ago, by showing the radius arm bracket attaching to the lower link
through bolt instead of the slightly higher mounting hole. C'est la vie.



Pic of the attachment point for the radius arm from Paul Gethner's site:

http://www.geocities.com/star_shine_3/GTMK312.JPG

and of the rear damper attachment from Paul Tegler's site:

http://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/blackbeasty/gt6rotogoldie1.jpg



cheers

Scott



> From: parrotthead01@comcast.net
> In tearing down my Spit Six project, I think that I found a problem. In my
> car, the vertical link for the rotorflex GT6 has the wishbone attached to
> the lowest point on the vertical link, with the radius arm and shock
> attached to the vertical link that is just above, about 2 inches higher.
> However, VB, SpitBits, Moss Motors, Rimmer Brothers, and even Haynes, all
> show that the radius arm attaches to the vertical link at the lowest point.
> I thought maybe that a DPO got it wrong and attached the wishbone at the
> wrong location. However, the opening of the wishbone will only fit the
> width of the vertical link at the lowest hole. I have a new set of
> aluminum wishbones and they match the configuration of the old cast iron
> wishbones.
> Did I find a mistake in all of the reference materials? Could someone with
> a GT6 with the rotorflex rear end confirm just where the vertical links are
> to be attached?

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