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Well fellas, I've been without my little TR6 for nearly 4 months now. I had to take the gearbox and diff out for some unscheduled repairs. For one reason or another, I'm just now getting the old girl back together. It was really starting to depress me actually.

I'm happy to report that my TR's 4 tires finally touched the garage again today. I've spent the night testing the few electrical upgrades that I've done while I've been waiting... everything looks like it's a go for a launch tomorrow. Hopefully, barring any unforeseen circumstances (like it doesn't start and I set it on fire), I should be installing the remaining interior the next few days and joy riding this weekend. I'm so excited I almost feel like its the first time I've driven the car!

Like for most of you (I think), working on this car is nearly as much pleasure as the drive, but without going into a total restoration, there's only so much that you can do in one sitting. One thing I find interesting is how I have come to depend on my little drives for stress relief; and when I don't get that my tolerance for other things in my life is greatly affected.

Anyone else feel the same?

At any rate, I hope to be giving a review of the HVDA hydraulic throw out bearing tomorrow. So far the clutch pedal feels great.

Take care
 
When things got tough for me Monday last, I just said
I hd to go and took a good long drive. Returned home
12 hours later.

Know how you feel. Best of luck with the recent
repairs.
 
You Lucky Dog!!

Best of luck with keeping on driving.

I drove Crypty 80 feet two weeks ago without
a breakdown. Pretty exciting trip for me...

not having the neighbors needed to push the dead
car into the Crypt.

Go drive a few miles for me, will ya?

tinster
 
In January, I decided to strip everything off my TR3A for the 2nd time and have it re-sprayed. The first time was in 1987 to 1990.

I got it back from the paintshop on June 5th and it was all re-assembled by July 9th. Then I drove it 90 miles around home to tune the new engine etc. I had the sleeves honed, one valve re-ground, I replaced the rear seal, new rings, lapped the oil pump to within tolerance and put in new con-rod and main bearing shell inserts.

Then 4 days later, on July 13th, with only 90 miles on the new engine, I drove it to VTR near Philadelphia. I took 2nd in my concours class (early TR3A) with 387 points out of 400. There were 38 sidescreen cars but only 8 in the early TR3A concours class. The winner had 392 points but had trailered his from South Carolina. I drove 544 miles back home for an average of 67 MPH.

Then after 3 days back home near Montreal, I drove to Welland, Ontario near Niagara Falls for the Toronto Triumph Club Canadian Classic. I took 2nd again with 96.25 points. The winner had trailered his from Windsor with about 200 miles since his restoration (98.25 points).

Those trips added 3,250 miles to "TRusty" and now I have driven 97,000 miles since 1990. And 176,000 miles since 1958.

Life is GREAT !!!

Don Elliott, Original Owner, 1958 TR3A
Nowhere's very far in a TR.
 
My wife just said to me this morning, "Let's take the TR6 out for a cruise tonight. The weather is perfect so let's enjoy it."

It doesn't get any better than that, except for Friday, when we will go to Cruise Night with a whole gang of British car owners.

It helps when the spouses enjoy the hobby and when they enjoy us having a good time with it too. This might be a good time to talk about a little winter project involving a spare engine of sorts. Hmmmmm....
 
LastDeadLast said:
I'm so excited I almost feel like its the first time I've driven the car!
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Driving the Old Gold such unique, special, and amazing experience for me. Every time I get in the car it feels like my first time. I have had the car for a year now and have never lost that sensation every time I turn the key.
 
Well fellas, a quick update. I officially took the car for it's first ride in four months... and even though the drive was only about 5 minutes in length and the interior consists of a dashboard and one seat, it was spectacular! All the big things seem to me working and I've managed to tune the idle to a steady 850rpms.. something I've never managed to do before.

Now time to put the rest of the parts back in.

I wonder how many bolts I'll have left over.....

I feel great today!
 
Well done Shannon, hope we get together one day. I am getting ready to make some big mods on mine, engine swap, triple Webers, Ansa exhaust and overdrive. If I had a good body of a TR6 I would just do all this to that one and leave mine alone, but the two others I have are just too involved and costly to fix, between rust and not much there to start, not much chance.
Glad to know the clutch worked out fine as some don't.

Wayne
 
Don Elliott said:
...The winner had 392 points but had trailered his from South Carolina. I drove 544 miles back home for an average of 67 MPH.

...The winner had trailered his from Windsor with about 200 miles since his restoration (98.25 points).
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Good for you Don. When you bought it new, I know that overdrive was an upgrade option, but I don't remember reading about a trailer option being offered.
 
paul, where is the cruise night on friday? i think i may leave work and join you if i get caught up on my packing....
Randy
 
After a little while with this new HVDA hydraulic clutch, I have one thing to say.. WOW!

The clutch action is "new car" smooth. Not too hard to install either, but you have to be careful with your measurements... get it wrong and you get to jerk the tranny out again.

This IMO is a great upgrade for all you daily drivers out there.
 
Brosky said:
It doesn't get any better than that, except for Friday, when we will go to Cruise Night with a whole gang of British car owners.
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- Paul, are you doing the BMCNE thing in Slater Park tonite...if the rain holds off me and the Mrs. might drive up from Saunderstown.

- only downside is travelling up in the rush hour traffic.

- tr6lover...you out there?...fancy a run up to the big city this evening?
 
hey greenie, what time are you guys headed up there? ive got a dinner date and then im free. i would love to go though.
Randy
 
Randy,

-will be leaving about 5:30-5:45 from near the Jamestown Bridge...rt1, rt4 then up 95. I'll be driving a BRG TR6.

-event is at Slater Park in Pawtucket,...off Newport Ave(1A)...follow the signs for Daggett Farm inside the Park...runs from 6:00 to dark. I think the best exit off 95 is School st.

-don't know where you are in East Greenwich but I'll pass the park and ride at Home Depot in NK and the one near the Beacon Diner.

-hope to see you there.
 
Shannon - you mentioned you were at last able to tune the idle to 850. What was the prior problem? What did you do to solve it?

Thanks.
Tom
 
Tom,

First, a little history that you might not be aware of, I'm running triple ZS carbs. I suspected that my initial problem was the misalignment of the three throttle shafts of the carbs, specifically the #1 and #2 carbs. I could easily get the idle where I wanted it while the car was in the driveway... but as soon as I drove it, the idle would bump up to 1200-1300 rpms and not come down until the car was cooled. The carbs where newly rebuilt, so I was trusting that they weren't the problem.

With that being said, since I had so much time on my hands, I took the headers off to have them Jet Hot coated. When I got them back I took great care to make sure that the throttle shafts lined up. At the end of the day, I ended up making the mounting holes for two of the intakes larger to allow for greater "slop". I also needed to take a band sander to take off one side of a fiber insulator. All in all I spent several hours trying different combinations to get the optimum setup.

Another interesting item that I found is that the stock intake/exhaust gasket (Payen brand) didn't even come close to matching the ports. By using a HiPo gasket from Moss (part number 695-060) everything matched up. It must have been blocking 20% of the intake/exhaust holes!!

After everything was put all together... all I did was sync the carbs up and drive. It's been two days and the idle has stayed rock steady. Its great!! No more run on!
 
Hey Shannon. If you remember, Paul went through a great deal of effort to get the shafts on his triple setup aligned and I think ended up with simple stock springs to balance the things. One of the flaws of Richard Good's design is the fact that some of us cannot get these carbs to line up perfectly. I went through the same thing as you. I wonder if some enterprising welder out there wouldn't be able to take a head on the bench and perfectly line up the three port that Richard supplies with his setup and instead of using rubber hoses to join them, weld in appropriately sized aluminum tubes, while aligning them with the head. I sent my setup off to the machine shop to have the head ported to match the shape of the intake. There was a very large overlap that the machinist ground and polished off the intake of the head. The original cast head had a similar but not as large overlap so it was better to polish the head. Anyway, mine is balanced now and I don't seem to have much problem, although I still will idle at 1100, can't seem to get her down. Whatever happened to the guy that was supposed to create some heat shields for us triple users?


On another note, I was chatting with a Moss salesman about the supercharger they sponsored and now sell. I told him my engine was modified and asked if the supercharger would work for me (knowing the answer in advance), the salesman assumed that by triple carbed my engine wore Webers. When I told him no, triple ZS, he was astounded and had never heard of such a setup. Wonder what cave he lives in. Anyway, he did say that Moss was having some issues with the superchargers that they have sold that are blowing oil out the valve covers of many of the TR6s they are on. Hmmmm. Sounds like the R&D needs to address that.

I wonder if the old Plymouth slant six with its cast six port intake would fit a TR6 head. Mount a big double pumper Holley on there, that would be nice.
 
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