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1. [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: fogbro1@comcast.net; Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:13:09 +0000; Newly rebuilt TR6 engine shows lack of rocker oiling. Several rockers show no oil. Others minimal. No oil spraying around the engine compartment with the rocker cover removed and the engine running; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00609.html (7,264 bytes)
2. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:41:45 -0700; Any chance you (or someone) has had cam bearing inserts added ? On the TR2-4 with the factory inserts, it's a common mistake to install the rear insert in the wrong position, which will block oil fl; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00610.html (7,817 bytes)
3. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: Spitfire4 <douglashansen@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:15:05 -0700 (PDT); did you install the head gskt upside down? Douglas A. Hansen www.1147cc.com List, Newly rebuilt TR6 engine shows lack of rocker oiling. Several rockers show no oil. Others minimal. No oil spraying ar; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00613.html (8,572 bytes)
4. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: Ashford Little <70tr6@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:05:16 -0400; If the lack of oiling is only at the top of the engine then it could be blocked holes in the rocker itself. I've seen rocker shafts that had been hardened that had the holes blocked with nitride. Ash; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00614.html (7,369 bytes)
5. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: "Brian Induni" <308gtsi@roadrunner.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:52:30 -0700; I have terrible rocker noise and believe it to be lack of oil north of the valves too, and was considering adding the external oil line that is so commonly discussed. Then I read Randall's parting co; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00624.html (9,324 bytes)
6. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:42:32 -0800; Apologies, Brian, thought I'd told this story enough. Years ago, I bought a 56 TR3 sight-unseen, just to get the overdrive. When time came to swap the OD into my 59, I swapped the engine as well, si; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00627.html (10,988 bytes)
7. [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: Don Spence <dkspence@telus.net>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:02:32 -0600; Most likely it is as Randall has described, blocked at the camshaft bearing. Simple solution is the external route. To avoid over oiling the head, install a tap in the line. A club member had a simi; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00629.html (9,130 bytes)
8. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:12:38 -0400; Yeah, but what if you used, say, an industrial laser? I saw this thing in a James Bond movie once that could've done that. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _____________________; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00630.html (8,899 bytes)
9. [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: Don Spence <dkspence@telus.net>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:50:56 -0600; The engine builder in our case, bored and installed a rear cam bearing. Moral? Do not take a Triumph engine to a chevy shop. But there is no rear cam bearing (shell) on a TR6. I have installed the ex; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00632.html (8,795 bytes)
10. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:23:23 -0700; Not necessarily a Bad Thing, Don. Boring for bearing inserts is the only way to save a TR6 block where the original cam bore is worn or damaged. Which is exactly why some of them do have rear cam be; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00633.html (9,046 bytes)
11. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: fogbro1@comcast.net; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:24:44 +0000; Don and All, Well, I installed the external oiler with no improvement. Then I removed the rocker assembly and cranked the engine. Plenty of oil coming up through the hole in the head, the oil feed ho; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00634.html (9,725 bytes)
12. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:28:20 -0700; Well ... You go first, Jim ! Randall _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html This list supported in part by the Vintage Triumph Register http; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00635.html (8,752 bytes)
13. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: Don Spence <dkspence@telus.net>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:32:04 -0600; _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html This list supported in part by the Vintage Triumph Register http://www.vtr.org Triumphs@autox.team.net; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00636.html (9,199 bytes)
14. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:36:42 -0700; One other comment, Brian, I doubt lack of oil is the direct cause of your noise. It might be premature wear caused by lack of oil ... but as old as these engines are, it could just as easily be norm; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00637.html (8,738 bytes)
15. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: fogbro1@comcast.net; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:41:20 +0000; I just got off the phone with Blane (?) at Rocker Arm Specialist. After discussing the problem he's asked that I return the assembly for inspection even though it's been well over two years since I'; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00638.html (8,582 bytes)
16. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:03:30 -0700; TriumphTune started (perhaps a decade ago!) delivering the external rocker oiling line with a 'special' banjo bolt that significantly restricts the flow to the rockers, to address some of the over-oi; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00641.html (8,589 bytes)
17. Re: [TR] TR6 rocker assembly oiling (score: 1): Author: fogbro1@comcast.net; Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:54:52 +0000; I put an old beat up TR250 rocker assembly and, with the external oil line in place, am getting normal oil flow to each rocker. Must be a problem with the new shaft. Just about out of adjustment on; /html/triumphs/2008-03/msg00644.html (8,153 bytes)

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