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Re: TR6 Engine Rebuild

To: jibark@att.net, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: TR6 Engine Rebuild
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:47:35 EDT
In a message dated 9/30/04 7:50:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jibark@att.net 
writes:

<< My motor got a head job this spring and then immediately started to burn 
oil - lots of it.  >>


Common on high mileage motors.  When the valves are ground you get better 
manifold vacuum, this pulls oil past the rings on closed throttle.

No easy way to predict what motor will smoke with a valve grind.


Harold

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