[Fot] Race Car workshop chemical grocery list

[BOB KRAMER]

My machinist gave me some rope that is designed to be used in this manner.

Bob Kramer
rkramer3 at austin.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas at cox.net>
To: "Randall" <ryoung at navcomtech.com>
Cc: "Friends of Triumph" <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Race Car workshop chemical grocery list


> The rear packing on the rear main with the felt material and permatex is
> really an easy operation that can be quite successful, but a little sticky 
> to
> do.
>
> Cut the packing into sections about an inch long.  You soak these in a 
> small
> tray of the gooey stuff for a minute or so, then insert a piece into the
> channel on the side of the main cap, but now the trick.......
> You insert a steel squared  rod with a similar shape as the channel  and
> hammer the previously inserted piece of packing down in the channel. ( I 
> made
> mine out of a piece of 7/16" steel rod just by grinding flats onto the 
> sides).
> I still have the tool I made 50 years ago.
>
> Each side should take about 6-8 pieces or more inserted in this manner. 
> You
> keep beating the stuff into the channel until it will not take any more at
> all, don't be kind, beat it down hard. Then trim the protruding bit with a
> razor blade. You'll be surprised how much you can put into each side of 
> the
> main cap with this method. It will stop the leaks.
>
> Never Be beaten by Equipment
> Kas Kastner
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Randall
>  Cc: Friends of Triumph
>  Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 9:13 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Fot] Race Car workshop chemical grocery list
>
>
>  > > Stinky Gooey Stuff for felt main seal -- what felt seal? I like
>  > > real seals, and they still leak.
>
>  On the TRactor motor, there is a felt packing between the block skirt and
> the
>  rear main cap.  Book says to dip it in shellac ... I use Permatex #3.
>
>  Randall
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