TR2/3/3A 1954 tr2

[carpecursusII]

Calling all TR2 owners. I just picked up TS34xx L and brought it home, just days after selling the freshly restored TR3A. I would appreciate any information on TR2 specific things that people have. The car has a TR4 engine (CT13xxx I cant remember) with a high port head. I have a low port head but need H4 carbs and intake. It also has a post 60000 gas tank, so anybody looking to swap for an early gas tank let me know this one is good and not leaking.

I need the most information about tenax studs. I have read the supplement from moss and see the difference between the round head studs and the pointy ones. My problem is this car has been painted twice and the interior replaced at least twice so I know things have been monkeyed with. It seems the all the studs around the body of the car are of the pointy variety and the ones along the back rail all have a nut acting as a spacer between the stud and the body.

 

[TR3driver]

It's worse than that! To be absolutely correct, you need the smaller "baby" Tenax studs and buttons. They've been NLA for many years, and as far as I know still are.

 

[6TTR3A]

According to a pretty reliable source, the "pointy" tenax studs didn't show up until TS3514. However, like most
changes on the Triumph Sports model, if your car is within 100 numbers of 3514, they (the assemblers) might
have reached into the closest box at hand. The tenax caps didn't change, so either type would have worked.
Frank

 

[TR3driver]

I don't believe that is correct, Frank. First of all, I wouldn't call the later, larger Tenax studs "pointy" in any way. They still have a clearly round ball on the end. Take a look at your windshield, those are the large Tenax studs. I took the comment about "pointy" studs to mean the "lift the dot" fasteners that were used on later cars everywhere but the windscreen. The change to "Lift the Dot" happened at TS5255 according to Bill Piggott.

Second, the "baby" Tenax definitely had different buttons as well. The later buttons will not securely grip the baby studs, nor I believe will the early buttons go over the later studs (without ruining the button).

Lou Metelko brought TS981L to the only Summer Party I've ever been to; and he had baby Tenax on it. They are quite clearly different. If I were looking for some, I'd talk to Lou.

 

[carpecursusII]

Sorry to cause confusion, I did not mean lift the dot fasteners. I am calling pointy tenax fasteners what most companies are selling as replacements, the heads come more to a point where as the ones on my windshield are much more round shaped.

 

[TR3driver]

Ah, my mistake then. I didn't know some replacements were pointy. The ones I got from TRF recently were round (but were the larger through-bolt version originally for aluminum frames).