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RE: removing the motor head

To: rick <rbacon@netcom.ca>
Subject: RE: removing the motor head
From: "Linda Long (IM)" <LLong@kollmorgen.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:41:07 -0500
Cc: "triumphs@autox.team.net" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>

Listers,
This thread could add new meaning to the scene in the old Spagetti
Westerns where someone in the mob yells out..."would somebody go get a
rope."  And all Clint can do a snarl!

Tom (don't call me Linda) Long

>
>Rick,
>I'd be interested in the answer too as I'm having the same problem.  
>There's the rope trick that has been used with some success. Nylon rope is 
>fed into 2 of the cylinders and then the engine is turned over with a breaker
>bar and socket on the fan extension bolt.  Would the person who posted that 
>give the particulars again, I forget the cylinders the rope is fed into
>(can't 
>remember if it's 1 & 6 or 2 & 4). I halfheartedly tried it the other day but
>the 
>rope was too thick.  I have some new rope and I'm itching to try.
>
>
>
>On 01/18/98 08:27 PM rick said...
>>Huh... Any tips on removing the head from the TR6's motor?
>>Would a sharp blow from a 20 pound hammer help the %&#! thing???
>>
>>rick
>
>Andy
>'74 TR6 -- currently small pieces of metal held together with rust.
>

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