[TR] ABRR Update: Two bite the dust, one of them my TR6 - Part 1

Blake J. Discher bdischer at blakedischer.com
Sat Oct 6 05:06:52 MDT 2007


Because of length (I think) I am reposting this in two parts for the TR list
only.

Hi everyone,

While on my way to the kick-off dinner Friday night (after having driven
from Detroit to Janesville, Wisconsin in my 1976 TR6 for the start of the
run), I hear a nasty clunk from the back of the car on acceleration and
deceleration.  I just replaced the differential bushings (or bushes, or
whatever those poly donut-shaped things are properly called) last week, so
I'm thinking one or more of the nuts vibrated loose.  We're all in the
parking lot with a gigantic flashlight snooping around the bottom of the
car, which is parked so that one half of it is up on a curb, and Pat Barber
notices the rear axle crossmember's weld to the frame have all broken.  Yes,
all of them.  So the back end of my car is essentially "floating" until I
hit a bump of some sort, when it crashes back to the frame. That's number 19
in this illustration: http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/tr6/images/130a.gif.

Sitting for three hours in Chicago traffic, 1st gear, clutch out, brake,
repeat, probably helped to further stress whatever cracks were in the weld
to begin with when I left Detroit.  So the car is parked, will be flatbedded
to Milwaukee, where it and I will board the Lake Express ferry to Muskegon
Michigan and I will likely drive the car along the interstate, albeit
carefully, back home come Monday morning.  If there's a bright side, it's
that I'll be now pulling navigator duties for Mike Bilyk in his Aston
Martin.  Call it a free upgrade.  Well, maybe not so free.

Continued...


More information about the Triumphs mailing list