When I purchased Stu's stag I knew it had a whining diff, I also knew I had a silent but leaky diff in the shed. One new set of oil seals later I was set for a quick change. Never works out like that does it. While I was at it I decided I would weld a couple of strengthening plates on the diff nose piece, that didnt take long.
Oh! what a lot of bare metal:shock: I could not believe that the area around the subframe mountings was still in its original unprotected state, and more to the point the only rust was very light surface stuff
. My original intentions of not fiddling with the car and using it as I got it are rapidly evaporating.
Living down the lanes where I do would give it a life expectancy of about a year so I blasted on a good coat of waxoil with my schutz gun.
While it was up in the air I thought I may as well sort the non functioning hand brake, this turned out to be an adjustment issue.
Final problem was the vibration under hard acceleration in first gear,which felt very much like buggered UJ's. The outer UJ's were obviously very new and very grease soaked and the nearside one was also well on its way to disintegration:shock:
Fortunately I always keep a spare in stock for the TR . I have had problems with new UJ,s on that failing in as little as 3000 miles so now use the uprated ones, the last lot came from Revington TR, but I have just ordered a pair from E J Wards. I see from the pile of receipts that came with the car that they were purchased on 6/3/09, and I bet they haven't done 3000 miles since
Any how, once the waxoil had dried out I took her on a 50 mile round trip and have to say what a bloody good car it is. I was pleasantly suprised by the lack of rattles and squeeks and the combination of ride and handling is definately better than any other unmodified Triumph I have driven.
Neil
Oh! what a lot of bare metal:shock: I could not believe that the area around the subframe mountings was still in its original unprotected state, and more to the point the only rust was very light surface stuff
. My original intentions of not fiddling with the car and using it as I got it are rapidly evaporating.Living down the lanes where I do would give it a life expectancy of about a year so I blasted on a good coat of waxoil with my schutz gun.
While it was up in the air I thought I may as well sort the non functioning hand brake, this turned out to be an adjustment issue.
Final problem was the vibration under hard acceleration in first gear,which felt very much like buggered UJ's. The outer UJ's were obviously very new and very grease soaked and the nearside one was also well on its way to disintegration:shock:
Fortunately I always keep a spare in stock for the TR . I have had problems with new UJ,s on that failing in as little as 3000 miles so now use the uprated ones, the last lot came from Revington TR, but I have just ordered a pair from E J Wards. I see from the pile of receipts that came with the car that they were purchased on 6/3/09, and I bet they haven't done 3000 miles since
Any how, once the waxoil had dried out I took her on a 50 mile round trip and have to say what a bloody good car it is. I was pleasantly suprised by the lack of rattles and squeeks and the combination of ride and handling is definately better than any other unmodified Triumph I have driven.
Neil
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