[TR] Have I blown a gasket?

[Pete Ryner]

If the compression is the same wet and dry and it is a fairly fresh engine I 
wouldn't bother with a leak down test.  The head has to come off anyway.  By 
the sounds of the symptoms, the problem should be obvious.  Just my $.02
Pete

-----Original Message----- 
From: Randall
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 6:10 PM
To: Lee&John Howard
Cc: triumph list list
Subject: Re: [TR] Have I blown a gasket?

---- Lee&John Howard <leejohn7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Holy smokes - broken piston or rings? this engine is virtually new! If so,
> I have only yours truly to blame.
> I'll do the leak-down, just to confirm that its a cylinder issue, then
> check the valve train, then remove the head and examine the gasket. If it
> is blown, can I stop there, or should I drop the pan and inspect the
> pistons?

Hard to say, but if it were my engine, that is what I would do.  Dropping 
the pan isn't that hard, and I think it unlikely that you are getting that 
much oil (enough to drop from the plug) past the head gasket.

I knew I had a problem (from the huge clouds of oil smoke chasing me down 
the freeway), but this engine was still running:
http://tinyurl.com/jw3v4av

Randall

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