[TR] Decking late TR6 engine block?

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You can cut the top of a flat top piston to work (dont go nuts), or you can order custom pistons with the pin relocated.
If you have a domed or a raised top piston the second option is pretty much it.

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From: "aribert neumann" <aribertn at gmail.com>
To: <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: [TR] Decking late TR6 engine block?
Date: Wed, Jan 29, 2014 11:08 am


The later ('72 or '73 & up) TR6 engine has a thicker compression ring about
each bore with a corresponding recess in the block (about 0.025 inch
deep).  What happens when the block is decked (approx. 0.015 in.)?
Kastener's Comp Prep manual makes mention of decking the block but no
mention of what happens with respect to the recess.  Anyone know?  Anyone
have their later TR6 block decked?  Milling the block enough to remove the
recess to be able to use the earlier head gasket would remove so much
material that the pistons at TDC would be above the surface of the block.

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