Modern TC Track Rod

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Modern TC Track Rod

Post by Steve Simmons » Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:24 pm

A few recent inquiries from the email group about the track rod modification I did a couple years ago have pushed me to finally update the article with more info, part numbers, etc. If interested, it can be found here:

http://www.tcmotoringguild.org/techinfo ... native.pdf

If you really want to kill some time, other articles from various sources can be found on the site also:

http://www.tcmotoringguild.org/tech/
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Re: Modern TC Track Rod

Post by Duncan M » Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:31 pm

Steve-
Keep in mind the stock TC drag link end (that connects to the steering box arm via drag link ball) has the spring opposite the other three link ends. Drag link end spring is nearest the outer side, not the inner side like the 3 others. The force arrow drawing in your article seems to show the drag link end spring on the wrong side. Pic below from https://ttypes.org/tc-steering-understa ... ssemblies/
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Re: Modern TC Track Rod

Post by Steve Simmons » Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:59 pm

Good point. I'm aware of the difference but I guess I wasn't thinking about that when I drew the diagram. I'll move it over and upload a corrected version. Thanks!

Here's the photo that will be in part 2...
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1949 TC8975 / XPAG 9609
1948 TC6011 / XPEG1182 (XPAG6472)
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