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Re: Two types of 1300 block...

To: RICHARD.JACKSON@NENE.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Two types of 1300 block...
From: "Chris Lillja" <Chris_Lillja@Pupress.Princeton.Edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 12:15:43 EST
Cc: triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Organization: Princeton University Press
References: "Your message dated Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:29:34 +0000" <98Feb2.153015gmt.66306@gateway.ukaea.org.uk>
One thing to watch out for in swapping Spit 1300 and 1500 heads back and forth 
is that 
the Spit block changed to (or from?) a "recessed" bore when the TR6 did. 
There's two 
kinds of Spit block, like there's two kinds of TR6 block and they take a 
different type 
of head gasket. If you use the wrong kind, it will leak. My guess is this 
change happened 
when the Spit and the TR6 engines were "semi-rationalized" somewhere in the 
MKIV era.... 
"The difference between a horse and a goat is more than a pair of horns..." - 
"Kas" Kastner 

Chris Lillja
TR4A
Norton Commando
Spit MKIV

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