Tuesday was a bit of a frustrating day in the man cave. Things did not work out the way I had intended and I found I had to really practice being patient with myself (not being judgemental). I decided first thing that my task for the day was to modify the front brake dust shields to match the refurbished TR-6 caliper mounting plates I am using for the Toyota caliper mod. I trial fitted both the left and right hand shields (to determine which was the right and left), referenced (one more time) the Internet instructions for trimming down the shields to clear the new calipers and started to modify the right hand side and while doing further trial fits got "confused" as to the configuration of the TR-6 caliper bracket ( left vrs right)..I had previously disassembled the mock up I did last week (and subsequently mixed up the parts) and ended up having to re-reference the shop and restoration manuals to prompt me on the configuration and then mock one side up again. I realized as I went through the steps that this was all "rework" and I belittled myself for not making a sketch or taking a digital picture before pulling the previous mock up apart!! Near the end of the work session ( I started to run out of energy-mainly to do with getting frustrated) I realized the trimming photo in the Internet instructions wasn't really that clear visually and that perhaps I should go back onto the Triumph site and look at the picture again-the image would be clearer on my computer. So I left my garage and went back into the house and pulled up the site-zoomed in on the photo and re-read the instructions and realized they are trimming back a TR-6 dust shield in the instructions and not a TR-3. The instructions read that the dust shields are "fundamentally" the same-which is true. However I discovered a TR-3 dust shield requires a different approach for trimming that is not made clear in the instructions...I had made some progress but had no desire (or energy) to go back out into the garage and revisit the trimming. I shutdown the project for the day...
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