[TR] FROZEN NUTS AND BOLTS

[Andrew Uprichard]

Robin:  it just goes straight through with a nut.  Nothing else threaded.

 

Andrew Uprichard

Jackson, Michigan

 

From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Robin Watson
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 6:38 AM
To: triumphs at autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] FROZEN NUTS AND BOLTS

 

At last I have a question as I said before I have been working on English cars and motor bikes from 1945 but never on a TR3 until now. At the moment I am restoring a 1960 TR3A that has not been on the road since 1976, up to date I have renewed the brakes, brake pipes, flex hoses, bearings and seals on rear axle and front hubs. I am now at the point of removing the engine and I find a lot of nuts and bolts that I have to cut off especially the captive nut type. I have a frozen ¼” bolt just over 3” long that goes through the ball end of the gear shift lever and need to know if this is threaded into the r/h side of the gearbox cover with a nut on the outside or does it go straight through the cover both sides of the gear shift ball with just a nut holding it in place. I have a feeling that I am going to have to drill this out of the cover on both sides of the ball.  Thank you Robin. 

 

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