[TR] High Torque Starters

Geo Hahn ahwahneetr at gmail.com
Sat Sep 3 16:52:37 MDT 2016


What sort of lock washers were used?

For connections with a reputation of coming loose I use Nord-Locks (or a
generic knock-off of same).  In one particularly difficult-to-hold location
a combination of Nord-Locks and socket cap screws worked very well.

Geo

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Dean Tetterton <tr3a58 at verizon.net> wrote:

> List
>         Over the past 6 month's I have had 3 different Triumph's to have
> the 2 allen head bolts that hold the Adapter block to the starter motor to
> come loose. The first was a friends TR3 starter and then the starter on my
> TR4 race car and yesterday the starter on my street TR4. These are Allen
> head metric bolts about 2 inches long. Is there an epidemic going around my
> area? Put these back in with red loctite. Hope that does it. Getting fast
> at taking starters out. Check and see if your's are loose before they fall
> out.
>
> Dean T.
>
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