[TR] Transmission Conversion

[Bob Danielson]

David,
Nice job with the documentation of your installation along with the
pictures. The only question I have is with your driveshaft. It looks like
you still have the slip in the shaft and are using Herman's locking collar.
Herman is now strongly recommending that the slip in the driveshaft be
totally eliminated. His locking collar only prevents the driveshaft from
moving in but there's nothing to prevent it from moving out and pushing the
tranny flange into the rear seal. He's seen one tranny failure and had
caught a couple of others with damaged seals from driveshaft movement. I
went with a new drive shaft
(http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org/DiffNewInstall.htm) and the driveshaft shop
agreed with Herman on never having 2 slips in one drive-train. You might
want to give Herman a call.


Bob Danielson
1975 TR6 CF38503U
Running w/ Throttle Body Injection
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org 


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[mailto:triumphs-bounces+75tr6=tr6.danielsonfamily.org at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of David Ljung Madison
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:28 AM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] Transmission Conversion

So - I finally decided to go ahead with Herman's Toyota Transmission
conversion.  I took photos and documented the entire process, for those of
you that are interested.  So far the transmission seems to be working great,
it's pretty nice to have a fifth gear, and to be able to easily shift into
first (I just have to break myself of the now unnecessary habit of shifting
into 2nd before 1st every time  :)

http://triumph.Daveola.com/Album/Transmission-Conversion/

Please CC me directly on any responses, as I only subscribed long enough to
post this message.  Enjoy!

Dave

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