Re: First Start

[Justin Paxton <justin@bexel.com>]

The rebuilder says he cranked the engine by hand many times as he adjusted
the valves after final assembly.  The only thing that has been added is the
clutch.  Yes the car is in neutral.  The only thing I can think of is
related to how long it sat (3 months) prior to finally dropping it in the
car for start up.

> From: Brian Sanborn <sanborn@net1plus.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:16:46 -0500
> To: Justin Paxton <justin@Bexel.com>, Triumph Newsletter
> <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: First Start
> 
> Justin,
> 
> Lots of good replies.  All I can add is some thoughts.
> 
> Is the car in neutral?
> 
> When you were assembling the engine... and torqued down the bearing caps...
> all slobbered with assembly lube... the crankshaft should have turned like
> smooth silk.  Even with the pistons and liners in... you should have been able
> to turn the whole assembly by hand.
> 
> Further in the assembly process the engine was constantly being turned by hand
> on the stand to line up the timing or assemble the the valve train. If this is
> not true something is very amiss.
> 
> The only gotcha I ran into was when I tried to replace the large steel
> 
> camshaft bearing with on from Moss ans it locked the engine up tight when the
> bearing was tighen down because the new part did not have a 45 degree bevel on
> the rear edge and was interfering with the cam.  I went back to the original
> part.
> 
> Brian Sanborn 62 TR4  CT16260L soon to be "O" - Groton, MA
> 
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