Tasmin series 1 door adjustment/Manual anybody?

[healey71]

Hi there,
thought a sunny day as today is just right to sort out the sagged doors on my tasmin. Should not be a big thing I thought...
But.. there are no long holes to adjust anything. Maybe the bushes in the rod are a little worn, but does not seem to be much. All screws opened easily. Do I have to make the drilling in the door hinge oval to adjust anything?

Has anybody got a Manual anyway??
Thanks alot for your help, really appreciate that.

Best regards

torsten

[number 7]

It's covered in the Bible, or if you haven't got one, I'v got an extract from the TVR manual which details the procedure. I could scan and email if you want. Let me know.

7.

[wedg1e]

If you take the rear bumper off, there are two knurled adjusters. These alter the tension in the cables that run through the chassis rails. Increasing the tension flattens out the curve of the chassis and pulls the doors upwards.
You may need to also shim diagonally opposite corners of the seats as they will rock on the floor once it distorts.
Later cars did away with the cables and used fibre-optics to carry encoded data from satellite positioning equipment to servomotors on the four corners of the car that performed the alignment automatically; alas some versions of the CPU were found to be non-year 2000 compliant and these cars can often be found relegated to the roads of Wales where a little chassis twist is found to be beneficial to the handling

[andgus]

Dear Wedgie
.......took me a while to figure out that we have 1 April twice this year.......
Well done....laughed all the way from here to the place where you sit alone and quiet.....
and back again.
But ......what about if the satellites get shot down? Doesn´t all new wedgies get a total breakdown since the doors fling open all the time, causing the driver to hold both doors and no hand left to the steering wheel????????
/Andgus

[wedg1e]

andgus said:

Dear Wedgie .......took me a while to figure out that we have 1 April twice this year....... Well done....laughed all the way from here to the place where you sit alone and quiet..... and back again. But ......what about if the satellites get shot down? Doesn´t all new wedgies get a total breakdown since the doors fling open all the time, causing the driver to hold both doors and no hand left to the steering wheel???????? /Andgus

Ah yes, but the average wedge driver is so well-endowed he does in effect have a third hand...

[andgus]

I´m looking forward to see where this third hand pops out........
Being a new wedge owner I suppose I have to drive a couple of miles first....right?
/Andgus

[jmorgan]

Sometimes the third hand pops out and requires a change of trousers.

[waynester]

wedg1e said:

If you take the rear bumper off, there are two knurled adjusters. These alter the tension in the cables that run through the chassis rails. Increasing the tension flattens out the curve of the chassis and pulls the doors upwards. You may need to also shim diagonally opposite corners of the seats as they will rock on the floor once it distorts. Later cars did away with the cables and used fibre-optics to carry encoded data from satellite positioning equipment to servomotors on the four corners of the car that performed the alignment automatically; alas some versions of the CPU were found to be non-year 2000 compliant and these cars can often be found relegated to the roads of Wales where a little chassis twist is found to be beneficial to the handling

Almost 5 years I've owned Wedge TVR's.....cables in the chassis rails, you nearly had me running out to check..

Oohh, that's my 999'th post




>> Edited by waynester on Saturday 8th April 23:50

[TVR-NUT]

jmorgan said:

Sometimes the third hand pops out and requires a change of trousers.

PMSL

Mark

[wedg1e]

waynester said:

Almost 5 years I've owned Wedge TVR's.....cables in the chassis rails, you nearly had me running out to check.. Oohh, that's my 999'th post >> Edited by waynester on Saturday 8th April 23:50

If it's any consolation, I'm in my 10th year of wedgedom and I'm still learning...

[hormone]

GPS positioning, third hands popping out of trousers! We'll soon be attracting the peeping Tom Toms.