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[ATTAK Z]

15 hours ago, ATTAK Z said:

 Great thread Chris ... be warned though ! I did a bit of fettling on the TR6 today. I might start my own thread. Ha Ha

 

5 hours ago, Keyser said:

I'd love to hear what you've been up to on the TR6 

 

 

Well, with your permission Chris, I'll start a new thread. My idea is that, being the good guy that you are, you'll be more than happy to help and advise on all things mechanical engineering to us guys who don't have your skills. So here we go ...

[ATTAK Z]

I bought my TR6 about 6 weeks ago ... I can't take credit for its condition, it was like this when I bought it

 

 

So the first thing I did - Whitewall tyres:

 

So then the car looked like this:

 

 

I also bought this with a view to my trusted indy garage (where they do all the work on my cars) fitting it:

 

 

Unfortunately, before they had time to fit this, lockdown came upon us so this job has not yet been completed and the other jobs I was asking the garage to do (new seatbelts, new twin horns) got put on hold. So now with @Keyser's help I intend to attempt to learn the skills of a master mechanic and do a bit of DIY on cars  ... beats gardening anyway ...

Edited April 9, 2020 by ATTAK Z

[ATTAK Z]

I bought this:

 

 

 

which goes here: 

 

 

 

using these:

 

 

 

but I'll save that job for a rainy day

 

 

 

Edited April 9, 2020 by ATTAK Z

[andybp]

Nice looking car 

I look forward to you getting your hands dirty

[Keyser]

Like you need my permission  

 

look forwards to seeing your progress and I’ll be more than happy to give any advice I can. 

[ATTAK Z]

Thanks Chris, and BTW this thread is not just for me; I expect you'll be happy to help anyone with technical queries about all interesting cars. So come on folks let's get working on our cars and if you need help, post up here.

 

[ATTAK Z]

FUTURE WORK

1) Replace twin horns (one is not working)

2) Renew seat belts (existing belts are static)

3) Replace window winder (drivers side is broken)

 

Parts already purchased from Rimmer Bros

 

 

4) Replace windscreen wiper arms with chrome ones (existing ones are black and poor condition)

5) Replace sun visors (existing ones are poor condition and pax side mirror is poor condition)

 

Parts ordered today from Rimmer Bros

 

 

6) Replace front TR6 enamelled badge (existing badge has enamel missing)

 

Parts ordered today from Rimmer Bros

 

 

[ATTAK Z]

REMOVAL OF THE TR6 BADGE

 

The badge is fixed to the front grill and the fixing is evidently accessible from the engine compartment. So the exercise involved the removal of the radiator shroud which has 4 fixings:

 

 

 

Removal of the shroud revealed this ...

 

... this ...

 

 

... and this:

 

 

So now we have access to the single screw locating the badge, and the 2 nuts which attach the enamelled badge to the chromed surround:

 

 

I decided that the car would benefit from a new radiator shroud so I ordered one of those also.

 

 

 

 

 

[ATTAK Z]

REPLACE TWIN HORNS

 

This turned out to be more difficult than anticipated ... the first job was to remove the Radiator cowl - two nuts and a couple of screws, all easily accessible:

 

 

This revealed one of the horns on the LHS below the rad overflow bottle:

 

It turned out that this one was still working and difficult to remove so I left it in place. Now the other one, the one that was not working, was obviously on the RHS underneath the air filter:

 

 

So I removed the air filter (fairly simple) to reveal the duff horn:

 

And forgot to take a photo - doh !

 

Anyhoo, the old horn proved impossible to remove so I left it in-situ and fitted the new horn above it and connected it up.

 

SUCCESS

 

I now have twin horns again, so I refitted the air filter gubbins and retired from the garage to have a well deserved glass of Tesco's best red.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The G Man]

What a cracking engine bay  a tribute to the restorer

[Tinyflier]

Always loved the brawny look of the TR6, certainly a lovely example.

 

David

[ATTAK Z]

This lot just arrived:

 

 

 

[ATTAK Z]

Well the sun's shining so let's get on with fitting today's delivery:

 

 

Removed RHS indicator repeater because chrome trim is a bit tacky:

 

 

Replacement with chrome trim no longer available so the current model was fitted but not with the shiny new screws supplied because the were a different size; so the old screws had to be re-used:

 

 

This operation was repeated for the LHS indicator repeater and then the shiny new chrome windscreen wiper arms were fitted, again to upgrade the old arms which were a bit tacky:

 

 

Then the shiny new grille badge was fitted which required the help of wifey who held the enamelled badge steady from the front of the car whilst I attacked it with a screwdriver from the rear (oooerr missus)

 

 

Now everything's been completed at the front of the engine (horns, grille badge, clean air filter etc.), the new radiator cowl can be fitted:

 

 

 

So now the attention was redirected to the new door threshold plates. These were fitted with double sided sticky tape rather than drilling for screws or gorilla glue. I think they look pretty good:

 

 

That completes today's episode 

 

Sun-visors next but that won't be as easy as I thought because the metal bar along the top of the visor has to be removed from the old visor and used again for the new visor. I've so far only managed part 1 of that operation 

 

[ATTAK Z]

@Keyser

Help needed on the sun visors please ... what am I doing wrong ?

[ATTAK Z]

On 15/04/2020 at 21:01, ATTAK Z said:

@Keyser

Help needed on the sun visors please ... what am I doing wrong ?

Well I finally fitted a visor today. I was trying to use the old metal arms but they were tight to get out and even tighter (read impossible) to get into the new visors ... so I bit the bullet and bought some new arms.

Result was that was an easy fix so we now have a new visor on the pax side with a driver's side one on back order

 

I then turned my attention to the hood cover to tidy up the rear end when driving topless (ooerr missus !). This involved the use of a bradawl, a hammer, a special tool that my mate made for me ...

 

 

... and some studs. Firstly the centre of the cover was marked and the bradawl used to puncture it. Then the stud button was inserted into the fabric from the other side, then the other part of the fastener was placed over the stud button and, using the special tool,  belted with the hammer !

Now I was advised to do this well away from the car incase the hammer slipped ha ha 

 

The cover was then put back on the car and the studs either side of the mid point marked up and fitted.

 

 

This operation was repeated, placing in position, marking, fitting, replacing etc. until all the studs had been fitted and the cover was ready for the final fitting:

 

 

 

 

Job jobbed as they say ...

... and it was such a nice day I took her out for an essential drive for some local shopping:

 

 

Minimum Effort ------------ Maximum Efficiency     

[Andy_Muxlow]

What a fantastic looking car buddy. A real gem.