Technical Tripod Trials

[Bleeding Knuckles]

Greetings All, I've actually got a bit of time on my hands so I thought as the engine is out I'll sort the Tripod modification. I did note that the late 126 hubs were very easy to turn and did wonder if the hub turning torque had been set correctly. I started on the rear left and after a brief struggle the staked nut gave way and I had the old coupling off. I'm glad that I did as it was showing heavy wear with the rubber filling extruding out that made the fitting of a spanner onto the nut difficult, in the end I used a model knife to trim the rubber away for access. Refitting the tripod housing is simple but the setting of the hub turning torque is a faff. I found a piece of tubing and attached it to two wheel bolts after marking the required 4.3" from centre a small bag of gravel provided the 1Lb needed all that was now required was a little tweak with the handbrake on then brake off and check the movement of the gravel bag, too slack try again - this went on for a while I will say that you do need a fair amount of leverage to adjust the crush on the spacer, but, little by little don't over do it as you will need a new spacer. Anyway time for a halt finish tomorrow.
Ian.

 

[Bleeding Knuckles]

I don't know if I'm alone with needing some extra leverage on the Tripod housing nuts, but needing to tweak the hub toque that final bit was almost getting beyond me and my shortish socket bar, so I resolved to get an engineering answer and that came in the shape of a 24" (600mm) Breaker bar with a 1/2" square drive fitting, an added extra was a Draper hammer socket in 27mm. Talk about chalk and cheese!!!!! Now I have massive effort without the possibility of putting my arm and shoulder out of joint Job done .
Ian.