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Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] Re: Timing marks on pulley incorrect?

To: "Carter Shore" <clshore@yahoo.com>, <spitfire-enthusiast@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] Re: Timing marks on pulley incorrect?
From: "MICHAEL C ROSS" <mikeross@Prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:37:24 -0400
> If you are lucky, the 3/16" play will be somewhere in
> the pulley assembly (loose nut, missing key, etc.),
> and not the crank itself.

I only hope!

Mike          http://pages.prodigy.net/mikeross

63 Mk1 Spitfire
66 Mk2 Spitfire
68 Mk3 Spitfire (donor body tub for GT6 convertible)
69 GT6+          (donor chassis for GT6 convertible)
70 GT6+
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carter Shore" <clshore@yahoo.com>
To: "MICHAEL C ROSS" <mikeross@Prodigy.net>;
<spitfire-enthusiast@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "spitfires@autox.team" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [spitfire-enthusiast] Re: Timing marks on
pulley incorrect?


> 3/16" !!!!
> Yikes Mike!
>
> Maybe the pulley was installed *without* the key in
> the keyway?
>
> I would not run the motor for even another second
> until you find out exactly what's going on.
>
> Get a book (or someone that knows Triumphs) and remove
> the nut and pulley from the crankshaft.
>
>
> Carter Shore
>
> --- MICHAEL C ROSS <mikeross@Prodigy.net> wrote:
> > Since I have run the engine less than 5 minutes
> > total and
> > little more than idle, what do you all think are the
> > chances
> > of having an undamaged engine?
> >
> > BTW, I measured the forward movement of the pulley
> > at 3/16".
> >
> > Mike          http://pages.prodigy.net/mikeross
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