[TR] Rug Rat Seats in TR's

[wbeech at flash.net]

Cosmo,
What a great testimonial!  I hope I can do something similar with my
grandkids, the first of which is coming to visit this weekend.  Maybe I can
convince my daughter to let him take a ride in Tarbaby once around our
driveway as I do not have the proper seating as yet and he is only 2-1/2yrs
old.

Have a great weekend,
Bill 

Bill Beecher
'58 TR-3A TS30766L  "Tarbaby"
www.triumphowners.com/1566
"A Triumph is man's best friend, it always comes when it is called...of
course, some times it is difficult to make it go"



-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Cosmo Kramer
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 8:31 AM
To: Triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] Rug Rat Seats in TR's

Hi
List!
To the person that started this thread of wanting to know if his children
were legal to ride in a TRIUMPH. As was stated before by another list
person, YES it is legal as long as you use the proper approved law seat. I
don't see any problem occurring if you do this. I started taking my grand
daughter out in my TR4A when she was two years old, as a reward for her
willing to help me work on the car. I had loosened the bolts that held the
tranny cover on the floor pans & had her use the proper size socket,
extension, & ratchet to finish removing them. I also had her help me do the
assembling of the cover when the time came. Of course I had to Finnish up
with the finial torquing because she didn't have the strength, but she was
pretty close to that point by using the torque wrench with an extender bar.
The next year, I had her help me rotate the wheels. again I had to help her
remove the tyre off the wheel studs after she had loosen & removed each lug
nut  (again she was using an extension on a ratchet. This time I placed a
piece of corrugated cardboard on the passenger seat before placing the
child's approved seat on my leather seats, so as not to cause any harm to
the TR seats from the sharp corners that are on the child's seat. Also she
was now about 20 pounds heavier than the last time. It was a joy to see her
enjoying the wind blowing her long hair ponytail about & the her smile from
ear to ear. This year I taught her how to remove the spark plugs, gap them,
& reinstall them into the engine. She's getting better in handling the
torque wrench now. Because I have the engine out of the car now with the
tranny off, because I want to install the Christian Marx's rear Engine Seal,
I'm having her learn about marking the Flywheel at every 90^ so I can mark
these points on the Fan Extension before I have them notched, as I have
described in Cosmo's Repair Manual.
 
This
TRIUMPH has served many purpose in it's life. It taught me how to repair it
(when I first obtained it I only knew where to put the gas & the key in it).
It taught me how to use the computor (so I could send E-mails to the list,
pictures to friends, &  the use of many different programs. Like PFD that I
used for the manual, how to cut & paste pictures when writing articles, &
I'm wanting to learn how to edit movies from those that I've made with the
TR4A going through the 'Tail of the Dragon' & many other rides). It has
opened up my knowledge of machining, & location of industrial supply
companies.
 
It has
also given me a chance to meet many of the VTR members & other TRIUMPH clubs
& their cars. So to me, my TR4A has opened up many different worlds of
learning & has paid for itself over & over again in the joys of enriching my
life.
-Cosmo Kramer


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