On Mar 20, 2:21am, "Michael D. Porter" wrote:
> This brings up another question. After reading here about all the
> difficulties with thrust washers in these engines, why is it that no one
> has, to my knowledge, offered oversized thrust washers to compensate for
> wear and the inevitable thousandth or two taken off when having the
> crank thrust surfaces trued and polished during crank grinding and
> refurbishing? I last rebuilt a TR4 engine in 1974, and don't recall
> oversized thrust washers being available then. It seems like a part
> waiting to happen. <g>
They do. Both TRF and Moss have 0.005" oversize thrust washers
for the TR2/3/4 block, and Moss also carries 0.008" oversized
TW for really worn engines.
John Lye
rjl6n@virginia.EDU
http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
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