Hi all, it's my first post in here, so please treat me gently.
I have a 1960 TR3a, which has had a body/chassis refurbishment along with a new loom, the mechanicals are good but not show quality and the trim needs work. I bought it like this and I'm going through it slowly to bring it up to a good standard without being a show queen. I've stripped and replaced the brakes, stripped and refurbed the carbs, done the valve gaps, filled the orifices with grease and done all of the other obvious reliability stuff first
One item is bugging me. There is a 1/4" gap between the top of the scuttle and the sealing strip at the bottom of the windscreen. It looks like the windscreen lower frame is too high, but for the life of me I can't see what is wrong. The stanchion corners follow the body line round the wing properly and "trap" the seal so I don't see how they can be moved, the screen lower corners are down against the stanchions, so the frame won't come down anymore. That can only leave the lower frame is too curved, or the scuttle is too flat. Either of those would have to be 1" out to make up the difference, but the lower frame must be driven by the windscreen size.
Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, how did you fix it? - please put me out of my misery.
Thanks
JOhn
I have a 1960 TR3a, which has had a body/chassis refurbishment along with a new loom, the mechanicals are good but not show quality and the trim needs work. I bought it like this and I'm going through it slowly to bring it up to a good standard without being a show queen. I've stripped and replaced the brakes, stripped and refurbed the carbs, done the valve gaps, filled the orifices with grease and done all of the other obvious reliability stuff first
One item is bugging me. There is a 1/4" gap between the top of the scuttle and the sealing strip at the bottom of the windscreen. It looks like the windscreen lower frame is too high, but for the life of me I can't see what is wrong. The stanchion corners follow the body line round the wing properly and "trap" the seal so I don't see how they can be moved, the screen lower corners are down against the stanchions, so the frame won't come down anymore. That can only leave the lower frame is too curved, or the scuttle is too flat. Either of those would have to be 1" out to make up the difference, but the lower frame must be driven by the windscreen size.
Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, how did you fix it? - please put me out of my misery.
Thanks
JOhn