[TR] Leaf Springs

[David Massey]

I've been framed?!!!  Oh, I get the picture.

(wait for groans)

The young lad (I say young since he's about 8 years younger than me) replaced most of the main frame rails from the mid-point back and really beefed it up in the important places.  I treated the interior with the Eastwood frame rustproofing kit.  This frame should last longer than I will.

Cheers.

 

Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: TERRY SMITH <terryrs at comcast.net>
To: triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tue, Apr 24, 2018 9:08 pm
Subject: Re: [TR] Leaf Springs



Oh, now, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, Dave!  We've all heard this a million times before.



You're innocent!  You've been framed!



Now you're doin' time...in the repair shop.  



Seriously, I'm glad you're perceptive enough to have caught that before you were on the highway doing 65 mph only suddenly to find your frame was a six foot straggler to the body you're riding into the ground.  Reminds me of taking rapid pictures of my cousin Rick at a rodeo coming out of the gate.  The first pic showed him bursting from the stall, the second pic was of him getting off the ground.  



Also sort of reminds me of the time my driver front wheel went MIA suddenly during a spring test drive.  



Or as Mark Twain should have said (but didn't), "I steadfastly advise against work, as it causes the heart to beat."



Good luck with it,

Terry



And thanks again for nailing my isolation switch overdrive problem.  With help from Randall who also advised, "If setting the pressure with the drill bit didn't work, I suspect something deeper."

On April 24, 2018 at 2:24 PM David Massey <dave1massey at cs.com> wrote:

It's like a frog in a pot on the stove.  It sneaks up on ya.
 
 My TR6 developed a funny noise.  A couple of years ago I thought it was a U-joint going out so I crawled underneath and OMG!  The frame was cracking and bending.  The only thing that was keeping the car upright was the body itself.  So I pulled everything off and sent the frame off for reconstruction.  Reassembly will be weekend after next.  I can't wait to see how much nicer it will feel when I thought what I had was normal.
 
 Cheers
 
 
Dave Massey
 





-----Original Message-----
 From: TERRY SMITH <terryrs at comcast.net>
 To: Triumphs at Autox Team. Net <triumphs at autox.team.net>
 Sent: Tue, Apr 24, 2018 9:51 am
 Subject: [TR] Leaf Springs
 
 Took the first road drive of the season yesterday. I must report being puzzled. 
 Last season ended with a major SNAPKERTHUNK. Inspection showed that every leaf on the passenger spring was broken, except one. I suspect several had been broken much earlier due to roads near home paved with potholes and frost heaves. ...So,I replaced both rear leaf springs last week, drove yesterday, and can't remember the ride being so smooth. I'd thought what I'd had was normal. Whoodathunk?
 
 OD worked perfectly all day. 
 
 Terry
 



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