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Re: Cam locating plate

To: SJANNY@aol.com, triumphs@autox.team.net, 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Cam locating plate
From: Hugh Fader <hfader@usa.net>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 17:32:20 -0400
Steve,

Try flipping the locating plate over. I just replaced mine, but the old one
had a groove worn into the front side. It had no clearance when I put the
grooved surface on the back.

- Hugh Fader

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of SJANNY@aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 1:23 PM
> To: triumphs@autox.team.net; 6pack@autox.team.net
> Subject: (no subject)
>
>
> I have just installed my rebuilt TR6 engine.  It ran fine
> with a large oil
> leak between the front plate and the block just above the
> driver side oil
> galley that runs horizontal below the distributor.  There was
> a space between
> the front plate and the drive side of the block.
>
> I removed the front plate.  The cam locating plate was very
> tight and had to
> be tapped out. As I am reassembling I had to tap the cam
> locating plate into
> place.  There was (and still is)no cam end float to measure.
> It this because
> the push rods and rockers are installed and the engine in
> various stages of
> valve position?
>
> Can I continue to put all back together?
>
> Steve
> 1974 TR6

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