[Fot] help, please!

[Rocky Entriken]

Maybe back off the timing?

--Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gasket Works" <gasket.works at verizon.net>
To: <RLEslEagle at aol.com>
Cc: <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] help, please!


> Dick seems to have a problem... are there any mechanics who can help him?
>
> See below.
>
> md
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: RLEslEagle at aol.com
>  To: gasket.works at gte.net
>  Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 7:45 PM
>  Subject: help, please!
>
>
>  Greetings.
>  I need the help of this amazing pool of Triumph experience--Dave Swauger 
> at
> The Roadster Factory suggested I write.  My car--a 1960 TR 3A.  Problem,
>  after an engine rebuild--TR 4A head; 86 mm sleeves & pistons; new Vicky 
> Brit
> street cam, lifters, & push rods; rebuilt SU carbs; etc, I have a
> smooth-running engine that will not go below 2,000 rpm.  I have checked 
> the
> following:
>  1.  The intake manifold flanges have been newly machined flat & do not 
> leak
> air (new gaskets, of course).  Same with carb to intake manifold--new 
> gaskets,
> no leakage.  Insulator blocks are the replacement plastic parts which do 
> not
> leak.
>  2.  The distributor to camshaft gear is aligned correctly and static 
> timing
> is at 4 degrees tdc.
>  3.  The vacuum advance is holding vacuum & not leaking air.  Pipe and
> connection at front carb okay.
>  4.  The carb needles are the correct normal codes.
>  5.  The carb rebuild included new shafts and bushings--no leakage with 
> the
> "carb spray test."
>  5.  The valve train is working as normal & is accurately gapped.
>
>  The 2,000 "idle" is smooth, not rough, but with the idle adjustment 
> screws
> entirely off their bases, the fast idle remains.  (The choke enrichment 
> cam is
> not hanging the throttle shaft.)  The only thing I can now imagine is that 
> my
> installation of the cam chain is one link off.  But wouldn't that result 
> more
> in an uneven idle than an idle twice as fast as normal but smooth?
>
>  Any help would be deeply appreciated.  The car is a nicely restored 
> example
> and I hope to get it on the road as soon as the Ohio winter retreats. 
> But,
> there is this idle problem...
>  Thanks!
>  Dick Eslinger
>  Dayton, Ohio
>
>
>
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