TR2/3/3A TR3A Engine Ground Strap

[MGTF1250Dave]

Aloha All,

Quick question on the connection of the engine ground strap. Where are the standard connection points? Thanks in advance.

 

[TR3driver]

At the LF motor mount, from one of the bolts through the timing cover down to the rear bolt holding the mount to the frame.

 

[MGTF1250Dave]

Mahalo (thanks) Randall

 

[Don Elliott]

Here it is.

 

[Banjo]

ooooh shiney!
Need some sound deadner on that timing cover though.
Wish mine looked like that. It should be there about this time next year.

 

[TR3driver]

Hey Don, what's with the clamp around the steering column ? Solid column car converted to split column ?

 

[Don Elliott]

I'm just about finished putting it all back together again. The first time was 1987 to 1990. That's why it so shiny.

The clamp is the original clamp that came with the car 49 years ago. It's an early TR3A (TS 27489 LO) while on a later car the clamp is different. See photo.

 

[TR3driver]

The clamp is the original clamp that came with the car 49 years ago.

That's interesting, Don, I've never seen one like that.

Was it a split-column car, or solid ?

Are there provisions to adjust the clamp's position, to line up with the steering wheel & box ? The later clamp has oversize holes so it can float on the bolts, but I don't see any provisions for that in your early photo.

 

[Don Elliott]

It's always been like that. It's a solid steering column. Not an adjustable steering wheel and not a split column. There is no physical adjustment.

 

[TR3driver]

Curiouser and curiouser.

Thanks, Don.

 

[Banjo]

And my 54 TR2 has no clamp at all. It's, of course, a solid column....
Maybe it was removed, but I don't see any signs that one was ever there.

 

[TR3driver]

I've only owned two solid-column TR3s, but neither of them had that clamp. Perhaps it's unique to early 3A's ?

 

[Geo Hahn]

...Need some sound deadner on that timing cover though...

A myth (perpetuated by a paragraph in the Moss catalog) is that all the 4-cyl TRs had sound deadener on the timing chain cover.

My TR4 definitely never had it and I really doubt that my TR3A ever did either.