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TR2/3/3A TR3 rotisserie or body buck questions

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Rich-

Sorry, this is about the only picture I have on the camera right now. The frame is just some 2x4s and was intended to have something to roll around in the garage and for when I haul the tub to the painters. Basically I duplicated the mount points of the frames mounts underneath the floorboards. Its not all that useful from a flexibility standpoint, but I hadn't thought about getting a couple friends to help me turn the body upside down and still use it that way.
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Nice big work area Randy. It's sure nice to have plenty of room to work.
 
Thanks Keith-

It is handy, but I pay the price - when I take over the entire garage like that my wife usually gives me a couple of days before the retaliation starts!

Randy
 
The reinforcing bars on this late BRG TR3A done from 2000 to 2006 were welded there "just in case". The front ends were welded up near the top of the inner panel just in front of the "A" posts. The rear ends were welded at the top of the rear dog-legs - inside the tub and out of sight because after it was all painted, I removed the bars and ground down the weld beads nice and flat. I didn't want these to be where someone might be able to see the zones where they had been welded. This job needed new floor pans as well as inner and outer sills, so it was all in pieces.

I wrote above "just in case". I say that because on my own black TR3A which I did from 1987 to 1996, I didn't use any reinforcing bars and I had no problem. Just like this BRG TR3A, the front and rear clips for my own TR3A were totally separate, then I mounted the floors to the frame, installed the inner sills, put on all the fenders and panels, then after everything was aligned for gaps, etc. I tightened all the bolts and then welded it back into one piece. It was solid enought to go to the paintshop and back, install it back onto my frame and everything fit perfectly with no re-inforcing bars. If you do it my way, you don't need them. But if you're concerned, weld some in.

See mine from 1987 to 1990 on the Montreal TR Club site : -

https://www.rucompatible.com/triumphmtl/member_cars.htm#TR3

Don Elliott, Original Owner, 1958 TR3A
 

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I forgot to answer your 2nd question about balance. We just put the tub where-ever it needed to be and we never had it tip either towards the front or to the rear. As we were placing the tub onto the two by sixes, if we felt it might tip, we just slid it forward or aft till it was stable. It was never bolted to the dolly. That way we could turn it over with two guys, and never had a problem.
 
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