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Don Elliott
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I suggest you call them and ask for the instruction sheet. If they don't have one, ask them for instructions over the phone. If you still can't follow that, ask them to e-mail you some sketches with detailed notes.
Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A
Don Elliott, 1958 TR3A
jsneddon
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well... I think you are talking about the "Magic Steering Kit" shown here?
https://www.zeni.net/trf/Christmas05/107.php
if so. that is all the parts you need to completely rebuild the front suspension.
Not exactly a "over the phone" kinda job (except for gluttons for punishment like Tony Barnhill over in the MG forum /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif )
Are you looking for something other than the instructions that are laid out in the service manual? If you don't have a service manual I'd get one.
I installed one about 20 years ago and it wasn't the worst job I've ever done but there is a lot to it. I was young and dumb with crappy buffalo tools and it took several weekends of cursing and banging but I got it done. I used both the Haynes and the Factory manuals and I seem to remember little bits and pieces in both seemed to help.
The sequence is pretty much laid out in order in the manual.
At the very least you'll need to get a coil spring compressor. This is one job on the car where you could easily be maimed or seriously hurt if you start unbolting things willy-nilly. A ball-joint separator is going to come in handy too.
But in the end it is a very satisfying job when it is done. You'll be amazed at how well the car actually handles when everything is new.
Oh. also get a good pin punch for getting all of the cotter pins out of the castle nuts on the bottom spring pans. Like I said I was young and dumb with crappy tools and it took me a good day to get them all off with an ice pick.
I'd also suggest doing one side at a time so you have a reference.
https://www.zeni.net/trf/Christmas05/107.php
if so. that is all the parts you need to completely rebuild the front suspension.
Not exactly a "over the phone" kinda job (except for gluttons for punishment like Tony Barnhill over in the MG forum /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif )
Are you looking for something other than the instructions that are laid out in the service manual? If you don't have a service manual I'd get one.
I installed one about 20 years ago and it wasn't the worst job I've ever done but there is a lot to it. I was young and dumb with crappy buffalo tools and it took several weekends of cursing and banging but I got it done. I used both the Haynes and the Factory manuals and I seem to remember little bits and pieces in both seemed to help.
The sequence is pretty much laid out in order in the manual.
At the very least you'll need to get a coil spring compressor. This is one job on the car where you could easily be maimed or seriously hurt if you start unbolting things willy-nilly. A ball-joint separator is going to come in handy too.
But in the end it is a very satisfying job when it is done. You'll be amazed at how well the car actually handles when everything is new.
Oh. also get a good pin punch for getting all of the cotter pins out of the castle nuts on the bottom spring pans. Like I said I was young and dumb with crappy tools and it took me a good day to get them all off with an ice pick.
I'd also suggest doing one side at a time so you have a reference.
Russ Austin
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Mike I did mine about 3 years ago, do ONE SIDE AT A TIME!!!
That way you have something to compare. Take pictures, write notes tag parts.
Good Luck
That way you have something to compare. Take pictures, write notes tag parts.
Good Luck
jsneddon
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One thing I forgot...
According to Roger Williams in "TR2-4 How to Improve" he mentions that you can lower the front ride height for free by flipping over the lower wishbones. Gives you a 15mm (1/2 inch-ish) lower front ride height. They are slightly offset and it is just a matter of installing them the opposite way around.
Has anyone actually done this? It's not a huge mod and I doubt anyone looking at it would notice. Plus the price is right.
According to Roger Williams in "TR2-4 How to Improve" he mentions that you can lower the front ride height for free by flipping over the lower wishbones. Gives you a 15mm (1/2 inch-ish) lower front ride height. They are slightly offset and it is just a matter of installing them the opposite way around.
Has anyone actually done this? It's not a huge mod and I doubt anyone looking at it would notice. Plus the price is right.