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TR4/4A Your thoughts/value of this TR4

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Spent most of the weekend on the rear of the interior. Got the wheel well covers in and all 3 rear panels, too. I re-used the original rearmost panel even though the kit I bought came with a new one. It was in pretty good shape and I liked the idea of re-using at least one thing from the original interior. I would have installed the passenger rear carpet, but I have a bit of cleanup to do first. ;)


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ghawk16 said:
Will you be putting carpet underneath the rubber mats? I vaguely remember reading somewhere that there was only carpet from the front of the seats and back. Is that correct? Seems odd to have bare metal under the rubber mats...
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You may be thinking of the TR3s -- those originally had rubber mats & no carpet in the footwell. As far as I know, all TR4s came with (grey) carpet throughout.

I agree -- a very nice Splitty there. I also enjoy the Triumph/Westy combo, but in my case an earlier TR and a later VW.

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Geo Hahn said:
I agree -- a very nice Splitty there. I also enjoy the Triumph/Westy combo, but in my case an earlier TR and a later VW.
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I knew I liked you! :smile:

Carpet kit came from Moss, really nice quality. Came with the Veltex snaps and everything. The remainder came from TRF, which they sourced from Newton Commercial in the UK. Also very nice stuff, but they did mis-drill a couple of holes in the rear panels for the top frame mounting. Luckily I caught it before I installed them and was able to remedy it.
 
Geo Hahn said:
You may be thinking of the TR3s -- those originally had rubber mats & no carpet in the footwell. As far as I know, all TR4s came with (grey) carpet throughout.

I agree -- a very nice Splitty there. I also enjoy the Triumph/Westy combo, but in my case an earlier TR and a later VW.
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Ahhhh, ok. Thanks for the clarification.

And Mink...I'm trying to use as much as my original interior as well, but a lot of the boards are warped so it's either new or reuse the covers and buy/cut new backing along with get new piping. I think I'm just going to go your route and reuse my the board.
 
Just an FYI, we purchased our '67 TR4A in September of 1966. As mentioned above, it had carpets from the front seat rearward. The front floors had rubber mats, with padding, I believe. I still have the originals and will photograph if it is desired. It will be a few days as we are currently 8,000 miles from home.
 
I've been off this week so I've made a ton of progress. I got the rear of the cockpit finished up once the parts came back from the polishers (finally!). I tore the front seats apart and they were just full of disappointment. Rusty, cracked, broken, missing bits of metal, the lot. I welded them up as best I could and took them (along with the top frame) to be sandblasted and powder coated. The end result is not beautiful, but is strong and rust-free. It's all hidden so I don't really mind. Also is an obligatory pic of the front grille after polishing.

I also painted the steering wheel and got the horn all hooked up and working. I'll bet it's been decades since this car had a properly functional horn.

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It's getting dangerously close to being a car again!

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Re: Mink's '62 TR4 resto / was: Your thoughts/value of this TR4

I took a look back at your opening post in this thread:

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Hi all. First off, let me say that I know next to nothing about Triumphs...
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Well, that is certainly no longer the case!
 
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Geo Hahn said:
I took a look back at your opening post in this thread:



Well, that is certainly no longer the case!
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The last year or so have been a crash course for sure. Couldn't have gotten this far without the help of this forum.
 
Re: Mink's '62 TR4 resto / was: Your thoughts/value of this TR4

I finally got around to doing a job I had been dreading...color sanding and polishing the hood. It's such a huge item, so prominent and so important to the way the car looks. It took me a good few hours just to do this one panel but after the initial pass, I'm pretty happy. First pic is after color sanding with 2000, beginning the polishing process and the second pic is after the first round of compounding. I'll touch up any imperfections tomorrow and then hit it with machine polish/swirl remover. Fairly happy with it for a garage job.

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Nice, you will have a line at the door, if you open for business.

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Well today was pretty exciting as I got to drive the car again for the first time since October! I probably put about 20 miles on it and I still have a bunch of fine tuning to do. In the little bit of driving I did, I noticed a clunk in the rear suspension I don't remember, a squeak/groan from the steering column, the front brakes squeal, and the idle is still a bit erratic. On the good side, there were no big puddles of fluids anywhere and the engine pulls much more strongly than I remember. It really ran great. On the way home I stopped by my friend's house and got a "family photo". This is the car I mentioned on page 17 of this thread.

On the restoration side of things, I still have to assemble the doors, redo the front seats, assemble the top, and do some finish work on the front bumper guards and tubes.

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Looks great. For that clunk in the rear, double check the mounts on the lever shocks. Just a little looseness there and you'll get a clunk.
 
So great looking. I don't even know what "color sanding" means. Before long you ought to offer to teach body work to some of us out here. That must be such a satisfying skill. Like welding. It sure beats leaving your car in pieces with a stranger at a body shop for months on end.
 
Gerald_Gordon said:
On my 1961 TR4 (registered as a 1962 and the same color as yours), the clunk proved to be rotted rubber in the ends of the shock links (Item 17 in https://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=29143&SortOrder=280). As for the squeaking steering, the mechanic in the state where the car is garaged is still hoping to diagnose it.
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Thanks, did you mean #76? I have not inspected the rear suspension yet but I'll bet it's shock-related. As for the groan from the steering column, it was the horn brush. I pulled the wheel, put some electric grease on the contact ring and et voilĂ , it was fixed.
 
Just got hold of this photo from March of last year - the guy I got the car from took it as he was dragging it out of the field.

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