[TR] New One

[Dave]

My dad had a 71 Bel Aire with a 350 V8.  After a bit over 100,000 miles it started to use oil, the tail pipe turned black and the valve gasket started to leak.  The leak I though I could fix so I bought some gaskets and pulled the cover.  A slug of oil rolled out.  All the drain holes were blocked with sludge.  I reamed them out with a screw driver, replaced the valve cover gaskets and we drove the car.  It stopped using oil and the tailpipe turned back to gray.

I agree with Randall.  Check your pushrod tubes.

 

 

Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall <TR3driver at ca.rr.com>
To: 'TERRY SMITH' <terryrs at comcast.net>; 'Triumph Mail List' <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Mon, May 15, 2017 6:07 am
Subject: Re: [TR] New One

> So what the heck.  Garage temp is in the 40's (it snowed last night--
> double ugh), so the 20-50 VR-1 was apparently so thick it took lots of
> minutes to drain into the sump where it could prime the pump and pressure
> the system. At least I think.

Seems really unlikely to me, unless something is clogging up the pushrod
tubes.  I've added straight 40 weight when there was snow on the ground.
Took a long time to flow from the bottles, but the sum of the pushrod tubes
should be quite a bit larger than the mouth of the bottle (so nothing piled
up in the rocker cover).

VR1 20W50 should be good to below -10F (-24C).  If you expect to start the
engine colder than that (!?), you might want to use 10W30 instead.

But I think you've got something else going on.

I did see a Ford 460 once where all the valve stem seals had broken and
blocked off several pushrod tubes.  But a TR3A doesn't have valve stem
seals, so that's not likely to be the issue.

-- Randall


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