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1. [Fot] TR4 Rear Main Cap Question (score: 359)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (tony at tonydrews.com)
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:39:07 -0400
You can kind of see the holes in the rear main in the attached pic. Tony Quoting Paul Ricco via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>: -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 989392A5-CC1A-
/html/triumphs/2018-04/msg00019.html (9,023 bytes)

2. [Fot] Has anybody ran these new brake calipers? (score: 197)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:30:34 -0600
To be clear, I didn't take offense at Bill Tobin's comment and subsequent discussion.? I'm a big boy and can take some ribbing. But, the subject has come up enough times with some insinuation of "ill
/html/triumphs/2018-03/msg00181.html (39,938 bytes)

3. [TR] cam end float (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:49:33 -0600
You need to have the cam sprocket bolted onto the front of the cam to measure the end float. The cam is captured on the front bearing housing between the shoulder on the cam and the sprocket's inner
/html/triumphs/2011-01/msg00602.html (9,189 bytes)

4. [TR] rear oil seal TR3 (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:03:12 -0600
It IS possible to replace the "modern" split seal without removing the engine, uncle jack did it at least once. You do have to remove the tranny and I'm pretty sure you have to remove the flywheel. I
/html/triumphs/2011-02/msg00501.html (11,392 bytes)

5. [TR] rear oil seal TR3 (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:18:02 -0600
To amplify the "crank diameter" problem - I have a (very expensive) crank with the "too small" diameter, made to the 0.020" undersize original dimension. I shorten the spring for the seal to a little
/html/triumphs/2011-02/msg00510.html (10,238 bytes)

6. [TR] Subject: TR OD Trans usage ryville.ca.mail.comcast.net> (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:37:36 -0500
Yeah, but if you are in OD at the time and end up going backwards in gear, you no longer have an OD. - Tony
/html/triumphs/2011-04/msg00341.html (10,555 bytes)

7. [TR] Head Off e.tcd.ie> (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:19:15 -0500
You should be able to pull the head without disturbing the figure 8 seals. I normally stack a couple of sockets on the head studs and put a nut on top to hold the liners in place with the head off, t
/html/triumphs/2011-04/msg00373.html (8,612 bytes)

8. [TR] Side of the Road (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:56:05 -0500
Years ago in my VW Beetle I had the fuel filter clog. All I had was a pocketknife and a coat hanger. I used the pocketknife to take the fuel filter loose, and the coat hanger to poke a hole through i
/html/triumphs/2011-06/msg00927.html (10,146 bytes)

9. [TR] no payne no gain? e.tcd.ie> (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:24:46 -0500
I would go with a composite gasket instead of a solid copper one. Getting the head gasket to seal is much easier with the composite gasket. Tony Drews
/html/triumphs/2011-06/msg01093.html (8,056 bytes)

10. [TR] TR3 oil cooler (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:22:37 -0500
The ones that screw on in place of the oil filter will send lower pressure to the cooler than the sandwich plate ones. The sandwich plate is before the pressure relief valve and the oil filter side i
/html/triumphs/2011-06/msg01123.html (9,126 bytes)

11. [TR] 30 psi at 65 mph (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:14:04 -0500
Screwing it in (clockwise) can / should increase the pressure, screwing it out will decrease the pressure. If it's screwed in all the way, that fight's been fought already. As someone else said, you
/html/triumphs/2011-07/msg00568.html (9,658 bytes)

12. [TR] update fuel delivery (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:17:28 -0500
Small stuff in the float bowls is generally enough to cause weird intermittent drivability problems. Tony
/html/triumphs/2011-08/msg00529.html (8,144 bytes)

13. [TR] Head Gasket Decision Time (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:56:38 -0500
Just to add a touch - I agree with everything Randall says. This is more on the solder vs. superglue... Uncle Jack has used the copper wire on the shim steel head gasket and always used super glue to
/html/triumphs/2011-08/msg00581.html (10,350 bytes)

14. [TR] 65 mph (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:02:20 -0500
Indicated 140 in my old 87 Mustang GT, indicated 135 in an Audi 90 (somewhat downhill), and 127 by tach and gearing / tire calculations going into Canada Corner at Road America in my TR-4 (race car).
/html/triumphs/2011-09/msg00142.html (11,450 bytes)

15. [TR] greenish oil now ZDDP, dripping chambers (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:08:53 -0500
On the oil, Valvoline VR-1 isn't very expensive. The non-synthetic is locally available for under $5 / qt. I have to get a store to order the synthetic for me, but even that's not too bad. Compared t
/html/triumphs/2011-09/msg00290.html (11,783 bytes)

16. [TR] Mystery Smoke Update (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:50:43 -0600
No great suggestions, but a question - when you did the compression test, did you have the throttle butterflies open? If you don't open up the carbs you'll get low readings. (Don't ask me how I know.
/html/triumphs/2011-11/msg00639.html (12,064 bytes)

17. [TR] (no subject) (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:57:50 -0600
If it makes you feel any better, I'm a computer professional and two of my computer professional friends had the same thing happen to their Yahoo or AOL accounts over the last year. I like the idea o
/html/triumphs/2011-11/msg00758.html (10,442 bytes)

18. [TR] Fluid recommendations (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:18:17 -0600
Avoid Ethanol in the gas if you can - it's hard on some of the fuel system components. Cheers, Tony
/html/triumphs/2011-12/msg00404.html (10,097 bytes)

19. [TR] blown headgasket without milky coolant or oil? (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:43:18 -0600
I've changed many a blown head gasket. In my case, it was normally a milky oil deal. Maybe one or two were blowing water out of the radiator instead of into the oil. At any rate, sometimes you can te
/html/triumphs/2011-12/msg00504.html (13,217 bytes)

20. [TR] Update on TR3A from 2 weeks ago (score: 186)
Author: tony at tonydrews.com (Tony Drews)
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:44:48 -0600
I wonder if the head re-torque after warming up the engine hadn't been done. I'm always amazed at how much movement I get on the second torqueing. Also, 0.006" difference in liner protrusion between
/html/triumphs/2011-12/msg00531.html (11,760 bytes)


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