<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by FI Spyder</i>
Time is the enemy of many parts not only milage. Anything rubber will be affected, especially as it's from CA. (Mine is a Sacramento car garaged all it's life and just about everything rubber was shot.) Steering and front shock gaiters, rear trans mount, front and rear bump stops, only oil leak was from o ring in oil pump (brittle). Replace water, fuel, emission hoses. Rebuild clutch and brake master and slave cylinders making sure cylinders are not corroded. Same with rear brake cylinders. Seat diaphrams are probably shot making the seats overly soft. These are the main rubber parts. Good time to think aout replacing rubber suspension parts with poly. Foam liner parts in heater will likely have crumbled. While doing all this stuff excellent idea to clean all electrical contacts as this will be cause of most of your problems. Carbs will likely need rebuild. The car will be reliable but being a 30 year old car it will need this initial attention like any car would. The parts are not expensive but they tend to add up a bit. I did all this and more at one time, took a year, as I wanted it up to snuff before I got my "out of Country" safety check. It was fun. Hope I didn't scare ya.[:)] (We are here to help).
TR7 Spider - 1978 Spifire - 1976 Spitfire - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra
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That didn't scare me. I spent an hour with my TR7 and here's my initial list of things to do to get the car running and ready for California smog.
1. buy/install new battery (yes, it actually started after a couple of tries).
2. Rebuild Clutch master Cylinder and flush the fluid (found a good write-up... thanks triumphtr7.com).
3. Replace Spark plug, spark plug wires, distributor cap/rotor.
4. Need to buy 4 new tires.
5. Buy a Service Manual (anyone has a PDF version of this).
Are the parts readily available at a local Parts Store (Pepboys, NAPA, autozone) or I need to hit the online stores?
Thanks in advance for the advice. I will take pics when my camera arrives from Canon this coming Tuesday.
