>From: Tony Rhodes <ARhodes@compuserve.com>
>Reply-To: Tony Rhodes <ARhodes@compuserve.com>
>To: Brian Sanborn <snaborn@net1plus.com>,Triumph List
<triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: TR4 Head Problem
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:05:41 -0400
>
>>This has me really bummed. I thought that I was doing the right
thing by
>>having the valve inserts done. I have taken this week off to
reassemble
>>the car and now I am stalled. The machine shop guy is on vacation
in
>>Disneyland with his family and won't be back until Monday the
26th. But
>>unless he rips out the exhaust seats and redoes them... if that's
>>possible... I'm stuck. I could have my backup head done
instead.... but
><
>
>
>IMHO, you were doing the right thing. If done properly, the seats
will last longer
>than the natural cat iron seats. This guy screwed up the job by
reaming too deeply
>for the new seats, or the new seats were thinner than he had
expected.
>
>It can be rectified. Maybe there are thicker seats. He might have
to go through
>the effort of boring out the old ones, then heating the head up hot
and replacing
>metal in the bored out seats, then re-boring to the correct depth.
Needless
>to say, this ought to be free since it is his mistake.
>
>I am always worried about how much effort they put in making it
right. I
>think they may just do a quick and dirty job so it will get out the
door. I'd
>consider taking it to another place and having them fix it at his
expense.
>Needless to say the original guy will not go for that. As long as
you can trust
>him to fix it right........
>
>-Tony
>
Not to be throwing salt in the wound... I would wonder how the new
seats have impacted on the chamber wall thickness... I thought the
casting was somewhat thin in that location and the machinist had to
go very carefully for fear of cutting into a water passage that is
just on the other side of the metal.
My take is the machinist screwed up... he should make it right...
even if it means getting you a new head... and paying for someone
else to do the job...
Greg Petrolati
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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