But YOU HAD AN XKE! No sympathy here!
From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 10:53 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
Ala Jag XKE. I remember pulling the rear suspension cage on my '64 XKE
to work on the brakes. After fighting a couple of thoroughly rusted
bolts that had to be drilled out I got the whole suspension cage down
onto the garage floor. While on my knees examining it I dropped a
wrench on the floor. In reaching for the wrench I banged my shoulder
into one of the four rubber isolater brackets that held the suspension
cage in and broke it off! Didn't injure my shoulder either! I then
checked the other three and found that all of them were at least
partially separated. Not long before that I has been touring down a
twisty mountain road. Gulp! Reminiscent of the time the splines on the
the steering shaft on my '73 Mercury Capri failed going down the same
road. Or the time I broke half of the spokes out of the front wheels on
my '57 Sunbeam Alpine while on a different twisty road. Some things
remind me I'm lucky to still be here. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/19/2010 10:33 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> Yes, there were a few re-engined with a very small but potnet V8 of
american
> ancestry, but I forget whose. Like many other of these projects, few were
> really thought out. His was probably a TR6, as they all had problems with
> the differential mounting. As the 6 had IRS, the diff was mounted to the
> frame on a bracket with rubber isolaters, which in the cases of either the
> front or rears were quite strong, enough indeed that the bracket, make of
> stamped metal, couldn't hold up. They all cracked, the question was when.
I
> remember having mine welded. Even the torque of the original motor could
> break a diff loose when badly cracked. Oh, those english!
>
>
>
> From: Piers Hemy [mailto:piers@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:50 AM
> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>
>
>
> Bill, your words remind me of an off-list exchange with Walt Wayman, who
> discovered that his re-engined TR (I think it might have been a -5 rather
> than a -6, but I can't remember the size of the new and bigger engine he
had
> put in it) had rather more torque than he had expected, and considerably
> more than the back axle could handle. As far as I recall, the back axle
was
> ripped off the bodyshell. Completely.
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pearce [mailto:bs.pearce@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 18 November 2010 23:29
> To: 'Olympus Camera Discussion'
> Subject: Re: [OM] Saving the planet or just saving money?
>
> When I had my TR6, I noted frequently that generally there was adequate
> space in the engine compartment for a nice Buick/Rover V6 with
supercharger
> or a small V8, so the straight six was easy to work on, but rarely needed
> it. The electricals were remarkably reliable, as long as you didn't want
> lights, defroster, wipers and the radio all at once. Sure had a lot of
> torque.
>
> --snip
>
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