Triumph TR3A Appraisal

Today’s the day we get our 1960 TR3A on the ramp for it’s full appraisal.

Jon is working on this one. He has fully greased all points, adjust the nearside front wheel bearing, stripped, cleaned and checked brakes. The drums, wheels have been refitted and knocked up tight.

All tyres required a little air.

Next job was to attend to the very poor and noisy exhaust system. We’ve remove the centre and rear where we found the rear silencer split and in bad condition.

Back on with the exhaust system. We have resealed and secured the centre pipes. A new silencer has had to be ordered.

Jon has addressed the issue with it hitting chassis.

Then on to unblocking the offside washer jet before re-test. The front fog lights are not working and the issues has been traced back to the wiring not being connected and nowhere to connect it too. We have used a power probe to test lights. Powered them up and the lights work fine.

We have a switch on the dash which we are unaware of it’s use. Jon has traced the wiring out through bulkhead but wire terminates at another connector. What makes this one particularly difficult is that the wiring has been done in a previous life by using any colour they could get their hands on and is a bit confusing to follow but we’ll get there and sort it out properly. They’ve used the same colours as the indicator and main beam wiring.

Cut cable tie securing the relay under the dash to ease tracing of the wires.

Work out how they’ve wired it and trace wire across dash to nearside.

Turn on lights and check power to relay. There is no power at present. Turn on ignition and main beam now has power.

Trace wire from nearside under dash and into engine bay.

Disconnect from current connector and connect to fog light connector to test. It is now working when main beam in and switch activated. Time to tidy up under the dash. Re-secure relay, wires and re-crimp earth terminal. Recheck all lights and now all is working ok.