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> From: Peter J Barrance <pjb@eagle.gsh.jhu.edu>
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: TR6 A-type O/D - accumulator removal?
> Date: Monday, November 10, 1997 10:09 AM
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Some of you may recall from last week that I am working on an A-type OD
box to
> drop in my 71 TR6. I've taken the thing apart pretty far, but I'm stuck
on how
> to take the accumulator out of the front housing. It looks like the
factory
> tool might engage on something in the bore which would be used to pull
the
> thing out with. However, when I look in there, all I can see is plane
> cylindrical surfaces. So maybe, it's some kind of expander which grips
the side
> using friction.
>
> If anyone has experience, I would love to hear from them.
>
> Thanks in advance, as always!
>
> Pete
Careful with that axe Eugene...
the A type od's have 2 different accumulator setups. The early type has a
"full size" piston in it and the later has a sort of an insert (smaller)
piston with an outer extended spring retainer. The early type has 2
springs, the later, only one. The early type has a hole in the center that
will accept (ok we're on a heavy memory trip here...) a 5/16" fine bolt.
Thread the bolt in by hand and just "wiggle" the piston out. On the later
type, "wiggle" that extension (part that holds the mondo spring) out and
then use 2 fingers on the inside of the actual piston to try to "rock" it
out of the hole. The hole that the piston lives in is heavily "ramped" on
the later setups, so is usually easier to get out, once you get it
"started" out. The late style has (oh what is it that goes first...memory,
yeah that's it...) rubber orings (as opposed to the early metal sealing
rings, which sometimes makes it REALLY hard to "wiggle" out of that hole.
If you pull the operating pistons, and allow air down the transfer holes,
it will often allow a "reluctant" accumulator piston to come out.
Of course, if none of this works...a no2 ball pein hammer will accomplish
the task with enough aluminum pieces to probably buy a 6 pack with the
money the recycler gives you for the aluminum...
Last time I took a bunch, I was gettin $7 per empty tranny case...
Nick in Nor Cal
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