Great! This confirms my suspicions. I wonder what else is wrong out there in our manuals.
BTW, how hard was it to remove that bolt that attaches the wishbone to the upright? It looks like my bolt is frozen solid to the upright and will have to be pressed out. Thanks. Dan Parrott Savannah, Ga 1980 Triumph Spitfire "PJ" 1972/1978 Spit Six Project car "Joseph" From: scotts junk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:27 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Spits] Rear Vertical Link hi Dan Yep, apparently the suppliers all copy the same drawing from the factory manual, which several decades some poor technical illustrator got slightly wrong ago, by showing the radius arm bracket attaching to the lower link through bolt instead of the slightly higher mounting hole. C'est la vie. Pic of the attachment point for the radius arm from Paul Gethner's site: http://www.geocities.com/star_shine_3/GTMK312.JPG and of the rear damper attachment from Paul Tegler's site: <http://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/blackbeasty/gt6rotogoldie1.jpg> http://www.teglerizer.com/triumphstuff/blackbeasty/gt6rotogoldie1.jpg cheers Scott > From: [email protected] > In tearing down my Spit Six project, I think that I found a problem. In my > car, the vertical link for the rotorflex GT6 has the wishbone attached to > the lowest point on the vertical link, with the radius arm and shock > attached to the vertical link that is just above, about 2 inches higher. > However, VB, SpitBits, Moss Motors, Rimmer Brothers, and even Haynes, all > show that the radius arm attaches to the vertical link at the lowest point. > I thought maybe that a DPO got it wrong and attached the wishbone at the > wrong location. However, the opening of the wishbone will only fit the > width of the vertical link at the lowest hole. I have a new set of > aluminum wishbones and they match the configuration of the old cast iron > wishbones. > Did I find a mistake in all of the reference materials? Could someone with > a GT6 with the rotorflex rear end confirm just where the vertical links are > to be attached? _____ Messenger has tons of new features that make chatting more fun. Click here to <http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9650730> learn more. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
