In a message dated 12/06/2013 10:43:43 PM Central Standard Time,
malaboge@aol.com writes:
> Yeah my break with the common MGB style dampner sold today was also just
> behind the front main. One weekend on the crank and it broke on the
> warmup
> lap! So much work put into that crank...it was artwork. So much so that
> I still
> have it ensconced in its own little display in the shop. from an old
> crank...
>
Amici...
In the late 1970s or early 1980s, I had a very nice TR3A street car. I had
found and bought an old Judson super charger, which we installed as much to
make it unique as anything else. I took the car to a North American
Triumph Challenge meet in Illinois that summer, and standing in line on the
false
grid waiting to do an autocross, I broke the crank warming up the engine.
They say the crank is the natural weak link in our engines. That car had
been restored by 'Start Your Engines' out in Beltsville, Maryland (remember
them?) right before they went bankrupt. I don't know who rebuilt the engine,
but I'll bet that crank would not have broke if Mike Belfer had built that
engine. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
Bill Dentinger
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