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TR2/3/3A Steering Column Support for One-Piece Steering Column

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The two piece steering column has three supports, one at the front suspension tower, one on the firewall [engine side] and one under the instrument panel.

Does the one piece column use the firewall support, or does it only have the front one and the under instrument panel ones?

Glenn
 
No, no firewall support. No support at the spring tower either. My car doesnt even have those tabs on the tower.
 
I do have a support near the bottom of the steering column. This bracket was in the various boxes that were with my car when I bought it (early TR3, TS11537). It fit perfectly between the column and the body mount with no modification ... so I installed it there. Perhaps it is actually for something else, but I never found out where that might be.

My parts book does not show any support bracket in that location though. Nothing at firewall either.

Cheers, Mike

Lower Steering Column Clamp.jpg
 
Thanks guys for the prompt feedback. My frame and body shell are from a 1959 TR3A that had a two piece column originally, that's probably why it has the forward bracket. I have that clamp, but do not have the one that mounted on the firewall. Unfortunately, there are bolt hole in the firewall. I have the old two-piece, but the steering box is very sloppy so I am using a one-piece column I had from a 1958 that I parted out. That car is the source of nearly all the mechanicals in this restoration. There doesn't seem to be any "engineering" reason for either support in the engine compartment with a one-piece column, but then I went to engineering school in the USA, not England.
 
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