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TR2/3/3A Rear shock linkage orientation?

GTP1960

Jedi Knight
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Conundrum: Which illustration is correct?

In this pic; the upper illustration is from a Moss catalog.
notice the linkage connects from the back of the shock absorber arm.
that's how mine was & it required me to remove the spring plate before I could remove the lower linkage bolt. (But mine could not have worked any other way, due to the overall system design)

the other (bottom) illustration is from the workshop manual & it shows the linkage arm to be reversed, attaching to the shock absorber arm from the front.
Could this be from an earlier or later design.
The S.A's. are slightly different as well, with the fill cap on the top of the workshop illustration.

appreciate your thoughts.
 

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I think one is a LH shock (Moss) and the other is a RH shock (manual).

Edit - Oh I see what you mean - yeah the link is different. The Moss drawing sure look correct to me (and the fill plug on mine is on the face of the shock, not the top).
 
The first illustration is correct. You can see the same arrangement in the workshop manual a few pages earlier than the illustration you posted (Fig 3). It will be very obvious when you go to assemble the car, since the hole in the shock arm is tapered and only fits one way.

I believe the illustration you posted is a "general" illustration from Armstrong.
 
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