[TR] what car?

[Joe Curry]

The tank is indeed a brass expansion tank.  It was fitted only on Mk1 Spits
(62-64) and removed for the Mk2's.  The same tanks were also fitted on some
Vitesse and perhaps Herald models (I'm rather fuzzy on those but am quite
sure someone will chime in with a correction.)

The carbs are 1.25" SUs

Joe C. 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:triumphs-bounces+spitlist=cox.net at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jim
Muller
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [TR] what car?

On 3 Jan 2008 at 20:37, Bob Labuz wrote:

> Just looking at ebay Triumph parts and located this carb/manifold
> setup.
> seller says it is a 3/4 but it is not. Maybe a Spitfire, Herald?
>
> What is that tank, an expansion tank for the radiator?

I don't see anything I'd call an expansion tank.  The left side of 
the picture shows an SU float bowl.  It's angled, so unless the mount 
is broken it is for a car whose carbs are slanted, not horizontal.  
(They made some that way with the appropriate mounting hardware to 
bring the float bowl vertical.)  The cover on the top would seem to 
be the valve cover, with a crank ventilation tube on the back.  From 
the relative sizes of everything compared to the dashpots and the 
float bowl which would be more or less the same size for any car, 
this looks like a very small engine.  The AUD2140 is an SU number, 
but I couldn't tell you what.


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