I bought my TR6 from a used car salesman where it sat in a dark basement
showroom. He must have seen me coming 2 miles away.
As for DPOs. how about discovering that due to an accident the front of the
car had been vertically flattened on the left side and the entire frame had
a 2" corkscrew twist along its length? The compensation was 1" of rubber
shims between body and frame on front and back opposite corners and 1", yes
1", of putty across the left half of the bonnet. First cold of winter it
cracked right down the body line of the bonnet. When I ripped it off I
discovered a metal surface that looked like it had been returned to shape by
those bone-wielding apes in 2001.
I must have been completely blinded by desire and ignorance to miss these
and several more very obvious problems. So whenever I see somebody make a
silly mistake or send a really simple question to the list, instead of
ridiculing them as I have seen done, I hold my tongue and think of my
bone-headed errors when I first got the car. Back then it wasn't an antique,
just an old convertible. I still felt like James Bond driving it even though
it's amazing some of my mistakes didn't kill me.
I like to thing that I am smarter now, but I am probably mistaken.
Mark Hooper
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Moag [mailto:moag@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 12:37 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: DPOs
"Dreaded" and "Dumb" were certainly not strong enough to describe my
reaction to finding that my DPO had "fixed" the leaking right rear brake
cylinder by crimping the brake line off before it got there. I guess it
saved on fluid at least.
Dave Moag
62 TR3B
La Canada, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Randall Young
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 9:16 AM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: DPOs
> Not "dumb" but "dreaded". The latter is much more appropriate when you
> consider some of things previous owners have done to keep their cars on
> the road. My Spitfire came with the rear spring snapped in two places,
> and held together with duct tape...
"Dreaded" was not exactly the epithet I had in mind, when I discovered that
the DPO of my TR3A had compensated for extremely worn wire wheel splines by
overtightening the knockoffs !
Bad enough ruining a lead hammer and the knockoff just to change a tire, but
the loud ZZZZ as I tried to drive away was one of the more sickening sounds
I've heard from a TR.
Randall
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