Overdrive Bolt

[Aeroken]

I found the following bolt on my 1973 TR6 with J-Type Overdrive that appears to be backed out. However, when I try to tighten it, it seems to bottom out in the hole and there is not enough room to remove it without taking the aft mount off (which I may be doing anyway, but that is a separate story). When I asked my local British Car guy about it, he said he looked at his TR6 and it was the same way. The bolt on the opposite side appears normal but I ve not tried to remove it.

Looking at the parts manuals, I can't find a good picture, but it appears that the rear case is secured with 6 nuts on studs with no larger bolts listed anywhere in the area.

Have any of you seen this before??? Is it an exhaust hanger attach point??

Ken Lieber

Here is a closeup...

 

[prb51]

I wish I had an overdrive to check.
Whatever it is, I'd guess a fixing bolt for holding an item in place, it has been like that awhile and is not a recent 'back out' from the looks of the threads. What is it folks?

 

[hondo402000]

I looked in Rodger Williams book how to improve triumphs and in the OD section it shows the same bolt but nothing attached to it and on page 51 the pic shows the bolt missing, if it works leave it alone, just my opinion