[Fot] aftermarket crank dampeners and pullies for TR4's

[BillDentin at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/06/2013 10:43:43 PM Central Standard Time, 
malaboge at aol.com writes:


> Yeah my break with the common MGB style dampner sold today was also just
> behind the front main.  One weekend on the crank and it broke on the 
> warmup
> lap!  So much work put into that crank...it was artwork.  So much so that 
> I still
> have it ensconced in its own little display in the shop. from an old 
> crank...
> 
Amici...

In the late 1970s or early 1980s, I had a very nice TR3A street car.  I had 
found and bought an old Judson super charger, which we installed as much to 
make it unique as anything else.  I took the car to a North American 
Triumph Challenge meet in Illinois that summer, and standing in line on the false 
grid waiting to do an autocross, I broke the crank warming up the engine.  
They say the crank is the natural weak link in our engines.  That car had 
been restored by 'Start Your Engines' out in Beltsville, Maryland (remember 
them?) right before they went bankrupt.  I don't know who rebuilt the engine, 
but I'll bet that crank would not have broke if Mike Belfer had built that 
engine.  Woulda, coulda, shoulda.  

Bill Dentinger