[TR] A Rover V8 engine?

[dave northrup]

Jonmac –

What is at the former airfield now?

Dave N

From: Triumphs <triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of John Macartney
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:57 AM
To: Greg Lemon <grglmn at gmail.com>
Cc: Triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] A Rover V8 engine?

Greg,

Only this morning was I at a farm where my wife and I keep our trailer home. The farm is bang opposite a former WW2 airfield that was decommissioned in 1947 and used as a transit car park to store new Triumph’s prior to shipment to wherever. That’s where the rust started. I well recall Saturday mornings in the 60s at Honeybourne doing stock checks and looking for cars the delivery companies had “lost”. Happy days but fiendishly cold in winter as the rain falls horizontally there - and always has :)

Jonmac

On 15 Sep 2023, at 14:32, Greg Lemon <grglmn at gmail.com<mailto:grglmn at gmail.com>> wrote:
Jonmac,

In the Midwestern portion of the United States we called the EOSS kit the British car rust control system, as the cars were inevitably pretty crusty around the edges, but greasy and rust free in the middle.  Regular use of the car would keep the central chassis rust free.

Greg Lemon
TR250

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 3:58 PM <johnbmacartney at gmx.com<mailto:johnbmacartney at gmx.com>> wrote:

Dave Northrup wrote:



I know TR engines have “the usual places” for oil leaks.   Is that the same for Rover engines?  This is a whole new area for me.



Let’s put it this way, Dave. When that engine was used in Buicks prior to Rover buying the manufacturing rights for the Range Rover, it probably didn’t leak – or leak very much.



However, as soon as it entered production at Solihull, it *should* have been fitted with the fully type approved BL EOSS kit – the abbreviation stands for British Leyland Engine Oil Spray System. To the best of my knowledge, every engine made by BL group companies  (and as independents before that) leaked oil  and even when they weren’t running! We Brits always like to give our valued export customers an unanticipated ‘little extra’ if we can as a loyalty bonus. However, from your brief description, there appears to be little doubt the power unit in our focus was indeed thus equipped and furthermore, the ‘technology’ in question still seems to be in excellent working order!



Good luck



Jonmac
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