From: a Wallace <wallaces@superaje.com>
>Reply-To: a Wallace <wallaces@superaje.com>
>To: triumphs@autox.team.net
>Subject: 3a rebuilt engine seems tight
>Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:13:52 -0400
>
>My newly rebuilt and never-run 3a engine, still on the stand, seems stiff
>to turn over. Since I don't know what's normal on a newly rebuilt engine, I
>tried it with a torque wrench and it's about 20 ft-lbs, increasing to about
>50 when on a compression stroke.
>Is this normal or is something too tight?
>Jim
>
Have you gapped your valves yet? I know this sounds like a dumb
thing but I assembled my engine about a year before my `4 was ready
for it and didn't gap the valves at that time... In the interim I
had forgotten that fact.
After I installed the engine in the car engine wouldn't crank well
at all. After I gapped the valves it cranked like normal. It's
amazing how having to fight compression on all cylinders will slow
things down.
Good luck!
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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