Herald948@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 12/12/2000 12:35:19 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> staffel@home.com writes:
>
> > I also noted that the TR3B on e-bay did have the TR3 heater garden hose
> > style water valve, but was 'taken' most by the emissions hoses. Didn't
> > all the TR3's have the breather tube from the block, no vent in the
> > valve cover?
>
> TR3s and most all TR3As, yes. But it seems possible that some late TR3Bs
> might have had some "closed" breather system via the vent or port in the
> valve cover, particularly those sold in California. I seem to recall that CA
> required PCV a year or so -- 1961, perhaps? -- before the rest of the US. My
> own (soon to be Brad's, but aren't most Triumphs? :-) ) TR3B has the early
> TR4-style valve cover with the brass plug fitted where the vent hose later
> was taken off.
I can only go by a concurrently-produced car, the early TR4. My first
one, a mid-year `62 (CT2334L), with an original engine, had a road draft
tube and SUs. What the folks on the west coast got, I cannot say for
sure, but early California VWs (`62-`63 range) I've seen did not have
PCV, so I doubt it was quite as early as `61 that it was required there.
Requirements mandated in `68 for the rest of the country (PCV, decel
throttle positioner) were likely implemented around `65 in CA.
Cheers.
--
Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM
[mailto: mporter@zianet.com]
`70 GT6+ (being refurbished, slowly)
`71 GT6 Mk. III (organ donor)
`72 GT6 Mk. III (daily driver)
`64 TR4 (awaiting intensive care)
`80 TR7 (3.8 liter Buick-powered)
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