[TR] TR oil pump.. and crank timing gear

[Alan Myers]

Hi Carl, 



I hope you are doing well. 



Have you considered taking some of those parts in to a shop to see if they might be hardened through one process or another? 



I've heard of?folks pinning the unpinned rotor to?the?shaft in the?oil pump.?I think I read a post or article by Greg Solow about it, in fact. 



Alan Myers
San Jose, California
amfoto1 at aol.com
'62 TR4 CT17602L

http://www.triumphowners.com/640 


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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:20:01 -0700
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Subject: [TR] TR oil pump.. and crank timing gear
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Thanks for forwarding tips Jim and Randall (and anyone I might have missed),
Disappointed that this NOS oil pump rotor is of the "soft shafted, unpinned"
variety.
But tossing is cheaper compared to later failure. Rotor seemed soft as well.
I also have a NOS crank timing gear.. it seems softer than original too.
('ping' sound and 'file' test compared to original).
Where can one get a properly designed and hardened crank timing gear??? I know
BPNW sells a good trio set (gears and chain) but I already have a NOS cam gear
from Roth Brother's British that pings like 'tool steel' and is 'blackened'
for rust protection and was in a Stanpart box with cosmoline, etc. And I have
an AE boxed TR timing chain and it looks real good too - every link is marked
AE! So a soft crank gear seems like a bad idea... Anyone test a TRF TR timing
gear lately? 
Regards,
Carl
'63 TR4 since '74 

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