<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Interesting 'upgrade'- ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We all know the advantage of the polyetgyene material over the original cardboard. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Howecer, the post & LINK Reminded me of a couple of my early TR4 experiences during 1968-1970. YUP-1968 & 1970: That involved the 'Transmission Tunnel'</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jan 1968. Bought the TR4 (65) upon return from SE Asia. Now Hot Summer August 68 in Norman Oklahoma. Was again U of Oklahoma Sr. student but had internship at Griffin Memorial Hospital /Childrens Ward.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Was going cross town to pick up colleage for our 6:30 AM shift at 6AM after Very Heavy overnight ⛈️ Thunderstorm. Now Norman streets have no Gutters. Sides of streets like an upside down V, so intersections always had pools of water. Never been on these streets b4 after a rain.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We wore Hospital whites to work. So 86^ish, TR4 top down, wearing white jeans & white shirt. Drove thru flooded 4 way intersection slow but water turned out to be 'quite deep'- way deeper than ever expected - flooding car and water coming thru doors & quickly covered my 'seated self'..</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Opened jack plugs ( to facilitate draining) took colleague work & returned home to change. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">After work pulled seats, carpets, and transmission cover to 'Dry Out'.. The cardboard tranny cover never quite fit right or fully sealed properly again. Had to add tire tube strips & oversized washers to resecure the warped original tunnel.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2nd incident- 1970- was teaching 'friend to drive'. After poor shift, bucking, tranny did feel right. Pulled tunnel to pull transmission. Found broken secondary shaft, but point is had to pull tunnel. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Now to get to the point of the my post: I also upgraded to a polyethylene cover when I restored my TR4 98-2000; but unless my original was fully 'shot' and needed a new cover & the 2 piece option was a 'minimal cost' upgrade, the additional time to remove the full cover- which allows full examination of the complete transmission & bellowing, I really don't see that the so called 'advantages' are 'that big a deal for us 'TR Hobbiests'.</div><div dir="auto">Sherman D Taffel </div><div dir="auto">Columbia MD </div><div dir="auto">65 TR4 CT50054L </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S10, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>