A good friend of mine installed a BW35 automatic from a 2000 Mk I saloon in
a TR6 for his father who had suffered a stroke. There were many little
niggling details in getting it to work but the end product looked like it
came from the factory. It often fooled semi-knowledgable Triumph people into
thinking it was a factory built car. I did an article about it for Triumph
World some years back.
2000 Mk I saloons were sold in the US but weren't very popular. I was
offered one several years ago that was in very good original condition, save
for a leaking water pump, for $600. I didn't have the room but it did go to
a good home.
Cheers,
Kurt Oblinger
Triumph Register of Southern California
www.triumphssocal.org
Odd Hedberg writes:
> Charles,
> I have never seen a 2000 Mk1 with a slushdrive over here in Sweden.
> Everybody drives manuals over here - But! We do have a handful of
> 2.5PI Mk1 in Sweden - with automatics... And I know that they do
> have the gear selector in the same place as the normal manual gear
> stick is; on the floor...
> So as I said: save it for the automatic parts alone! There's always
> someone in need of an automatic version of a TR5/6, or such...
>
> The gearbox used in the saloons were an ordinary Borg Warner BW35
> - so rebuilding the slushbox itself should be easy. Imho at least...
> Best regards
> /Odd
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