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Re: TR3B / TR4 valve covers - whats original?

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Subject: Re: TR3B / TR4 valve covers - whats original?
From: "Brad Kahler" <brad.kahler@141.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:06:50 -0000
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
I think Andy's response pretty much covered it all.  I think they were 
definitely intended for the TR4's and the only difference in the engines was 
the numbers stamped on the sides TCF or TSF or CT.  Makes sense to me..!

Brad


> Hmmm, something just ocurred to me. These valve covers "have" to be for the
> TR4 and not just TR3 left-overs... Didn't they move the filler from the
> front on the TR3 to that back on the TR4? P'raps a clearance thing with the
> lower bonnet?
> 
> 
> > >>Listers,
> > >>
> > >>Now that this subject has come up, how many of you own early TR4 (pre
> > >>CT15,000 or so) cars that you know to be original, that have the brass
> >plug
> > >>on the valve cover?
> >
> >No reason to believe it is not original.  I have the brass plug in the
> >middle of the valve cover on CT2846L.
> >
> 
> 
> Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois       1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
> 
> That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
> 
> 
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