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I decided to "go authentic" and purchased the little 3-piece kit that holds down the spare tire cover in the trunk. I had been using an eye-bolt wrapped in black tape. The pin fits into a so-called cam that's a press fit into the bottom of a square hole on the metal flange protruding from the rear panel. Whilst pressing the cam into the square hole - or trying to - the cam slipped and fell into a blind panel and disappeared. No way to get at it that I could see other than cutting a huge hole on the bottom of the panel and trying to locate the little cam which is - you guessed it - plastic. I had no idea the hole at the top of the panel was even there. It was hidden behind the mounting flange. Had I known this could happen, I would have pushed some wire through the cam and twisted the wire so that the cam couldn't fall into the hole. The ironic part is that the pin was too small anyway and would not have fit. The solution? In my vast collection of nuts, bolts and 65 years of accumulated odds and ends, I found a caged nut which just happened to be a perfect press fit for the hole. Using the safety wire, I levered it into the hole; found a large bolt (the only one in my entire vast collection) whose thread somehow matched the nut and I was in business. The cover will no longer rattle. Warning - if you decide to buy the 3 little parts, 1. make sure the parts will fit when the cover is pushed down, and 2. be sure to safety wire the cam so it will not fall down into the bottomless pit. Anyone else have the same experience?
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trrdster2000
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Well, you stopped one and created another. If you could tell which panel was rattling in a TR6, you are a better man than me gunga din.
We must be around the same age and my hearing allows me to drive the 6 with no noise at all. It also does not allow me to hear the bearing getting ready to self destruct. LOL
Wayne
We must be around the same age and my hearing allows me to drive the 6 with no noise at all. It also does not allow me to hear the bearing getting ready to self destruct. LOL
Wayne
