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1. [Fot] TR3/4 Rear Main Seal (score: 115): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:15:13 +0000 (UTC); Hi Neil.? Since I retired from racing, I have built a couple of Triumph engines, and am now working on an MGB engine.? On the first Triumph engine I did, I used used the stock Triumph head gasket, wi; /html/fot/2017-01/msg00102.html (20,755 bytes)
2. [Fot] TR3/4 Rear Main Seal (score: 115): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 23:39:14 +0000 (UTC); ?I have received a huge number of responses to my questions about crankshaft rear seal modifications for TR-3 and TR-4 engines.? In fact, I think there must be as many different approaches as there a; /html/fot/2017-01/msg00111.html (19,218 bytes)
3. [Fot] Cylinder head freeze plug help (score: 115): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 21:30:33 +0000 (UTC); I always used brown Permatex (old school), but hey, if it works, why change it? Jack On Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 1:30:58 PM EDT, Jerry Van Vlack <jerryvv at roadrunner.com> wrote: It goes without sayi; /html/fot/2018-05/msg00014.html (14,801 bytes)
4. [Fot] Cylinder head freeze plug help (score: 115): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 22:16:23 +0000 (UTC); That's what I was getting at when I suggested in an earlier post that the plug blowing out may be a symptom of a larger problem.? You are right 7-12 PSI is not enough to blow out a properly installed; /html/fot/2018-05/msg00030.html (18,958 bytes)
5. [Fot] Flat towing a Vitesse (score: 115): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 21:58:06 +0000 (UTC); I started out in 1974, flat towing my TR-4 behind a 6 cylinder Mustang.? After 2 driver's schools (one snowed out and rescheduled the following weekend at St. Louis), my second Regional Race was at N; /html/fot/2018-05/msg00049.html (15,066 bytes)
6. [Fot] best gearbox for TR6 more... (score: 115): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:57:00 +0000 (UTC); Hi Glen.? I agree with most of your comments.? I raced a TR-4 in SCCA for 24 years, and used both close ratio, and stock ratio gearboxes with, and without overdrive.? I always used the later housings; /html/fot/2018-07/msg00149.html (16,153 bytes)
7. [Fot] TR3/4 Rear Main Seal (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 15:43:44 +0000 (UTC); Before the Viton seal became available, I used a couple of different approaches to keeping the crankcase sealed at 7,000 RPM's, both involved machining off the scrolling from the rear of the cranksha; /html/fot/2017-01/msg00090.html (12,070 bytes)
8. [Fot] TR3 hardtop drip rails (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 14:07:09 +0000 (UTC); I have just finished restoring a hard top which I have had for over 30 years.? It came with a couple of 'parts cars' that I bought in 1985.? The top was on a TR-3B (1962) car which was crashed in the; /html/fot/2017-02/msg00011.html (9,655 bytes)
9. [Fot] TR4 ARP Flywheel Bolts Question (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:05:45 +0000 (UTC); Lots of interesting discussion here.? This may surprise some of you, but my experience shows that the Factory knew what they were doing when they were designing the flywheel connection to the cranksh; /html/fot/2017-06/msg00047.html (19,530 bytes)
10. [Fot] TR4 ARP Flywheel Bolts Question (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 00:41:08 +0000 (UTC); Hi Peter.? You are way ahead of me from an engineering standpoint.? I was a bean counter.? All I was doing here was sharing my experience with the TR-4 engine, over a 25 year racing career, for what; /html/fot/2017-06/msg00051.html (21,032 bytes)
11. [Fot] Looking for Michael Hado (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 21:54:40 +0000 (UTC); Michael, are you on the FOT list?? If so, please contact me by email.? I bought a laminated wiring diagram from you a couple of years ago, and would like to get another one, but I have lost your emai; /html/fot/2017-06/msg00058.html (21,790 bytes)
12. [Fot] Figure 8 gasket thickness (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 22:09:49 +0000 (UTC); Hi Tim.? I rebuilt the engine in my street TR-3 (10:1 compression, mild cam, etc.) a couple of years ago.? I used the steel figure 8 gaskets, and the liners were a new set of 87MM from Moss (so were; /html/fot/2017-08/msg00002.html (11,256 bytes)
13. [Fot] SY Carburetor Needles? (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:09:45 +0000 (UTC); Does anyone out there have a pair of SY carburetor needles for SU HS-6 carburetors, that they would like to sell?? Or would you know where I might find with a pair? I put a pair of HS-6's on my MGB a; /html/fot/2017-08/msg00007.html (7,539 bytes)
14. [Fot] piston/head clearance (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:20:57 +0000 (UTC); Hi Greg.? I was interested in your comments below.? It sounds like the extreme engine you built is very similar to the SCCA legal engines I was running in my TR-4 the last few years I was racing.? I; /html/fot/2017-09/msg00002.html (10,859 bytes)
15. [Fot] Tr6 transmission mount position (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 15:07:05 +0000 (UTC); They were basically the same, but in 1973, they changed the mounting points on the frame to accommodate the J-Type opverdrive.? Therefore, to use a non-overdrive or A-Type opverdrive, you have to use; /html/fot/2017-09/msg00092.html (8,362 bytes)
16. [Fot] D Type Overdrive (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2017 15:09:40 +0000 (UTC); I found that the plain old 'Aviation' Permatex worked just fine for this application.? Never had one leak. Jack Tony Drews I am undertakingthe refurbishment of a D-Type overdrive unit and I see that; /html/fot/2017-09/msg00093.html (9,014 bytes)
17. [Fot] TR6 Upper Control Arms (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 19:57:16 +0000 (UTC); I believe only the early TR-4's were different.? They changed to the later style at chassis number CT6343 (to get 3 - 5 degrees of positive castor), and were the same from then on, through the TR-6.?; /html/fot/2017-11/msg00010.html (9,326 bytes)
18. [Fot] 1967-68 Triumph Parts List (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:43:44 +0000 (UTC); Someplace along with my many Triumph purchases over the last 50 or so years, I picked up a copy of an official factory publication, in the original 3 ring binder, of the 1967-68 parts list for "Stand; /html/fot/2017-11/msg00088.html (8,398 bytes)
19. [Fot] 4.3 gear (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 12:20:15 +0000 (UTC); I can confirm the gears are the same, TR-4 and TR-6. Jack On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, 6:06:29 PM EST, Sam Halkias via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote: Not sure, but I think they are. Can someone; /html/fot/2017-12/msg00024.html (8,544 bytes)
20. [Fot] [WPTA] NCTA Member (score: 108): Author: jwheeler1947 at yahoo.com (Jack Wheeler); Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 18:42:59 +0000 (UTC); I was also at Watkins Glen in '08 and I saw Jim Shaw there with his geranium TR-2 (beautiful car, by the way).? I'm pretty sure those pictures are of Jim's car.? Jim is a long time friend, going back; /html/fot/2017-12/msg00041.html (10,441 bytes)

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