Cosmic73

After borrowing my bosses engine lift, I finally managed to drop the block onto a dolly with mm of clearance to slide under the bumper!!

Too right, especially after seeing loads of recent posts of coolant leaking into the spark plug tubes. 🙂

Bit of an update, my new valve seals arrived yesterday and today I've spent rebuilding the heads. The heads passed their pressure tests and had a very light skim at Knights engineering. The valves were minging and I had them vapor blasted. Valves before; Valves after; Head now

Nice pics, it looks pristine. I'll be stripping my block down over Christmas and was wondering; Did you fit new rings on the same pistons or did you need a rebore and oversized pistons? Did you get away with std main & big-end bearings on the crank?

Hey Alex, it's a small world, if you're around japfest next year or other club meets you'll see it again. Just gotta pull my finger out and fix it 🙂

Ah, my mobile has tiny buttons and I mistyped. I meant 300.

Cheers Willsy. 400bhp is plenty enough for me so I'll be staying stock

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Hey Dave, you're a mind reader! That's exactly what I wanted and my wife is getting me them for Christmas 🎄🎄, Nice one 🙂

Finally decided to drop the block down instead of lifting it out. By removing the roll bar (which needs powder coating anyway) I've now plenty of space to pull the block out the tranny and down. 🙂

I've always like triumph TRs and your TR6 is a good example. I was after a project TR7 or 8 but they don't come up often. The British motors museum at Gaydon has a concept TR25, be great if that went into production. https://www.britishmotormuseum.co.uk/news/triumph-tr25-by-makkina Good luck with your sale 🙂

Long overdue imo. I've nothing against a spirited drive, but there's some bikes and cars have totally illegal exhausts where the noise, even at idle is absolutely deafening you can hear it for miles.

I've just removed the front brace from a 2006 Z and it was very simple to do. Just spray the 8 bolts with wd40 the day before and use a bastard big breaker bar to crack off the nuts. Even the front subframe wasn't too bad, again loads of wd40 and a breaker bar. My Winter project post describes in more detail. Both parts are getting powder coated. It's a shame to scrap a stunning car that's served you well for the sake of a few bolt off parts.

This evening I managed to remove the front subframe, bit fiddly but went ok. I'll be send that and the brace for powder coating.

This evening I started removing the front subframe to realise the block can't be lowered because the steering rack is in the way, which means I'll have to lift the block up and out instead. Not the end of the world, but just pain to set up the lift 😞

This evening I managed to remove the valves which I'll take to get soda blasted tomorrow. I'll also drop off the heads at Knights engineering for pressure test and if all ok, a skim.

I've got a difficult choice. Do I now, 1. Lift the block out? or 2. Remove the subframe and drop the block? Since the subframe is quite rusty and could do with a refurb, I thought I'd remove it, get it blasted and powder coated. I managed to remove the brace today. Thank the lord for my breaker bar 🙏🙏 But not sure how to remove the subframe. Anyone done this before?

My heads are now off. I'll remove the valves, get them soda blasted and pressure test and skim the heads.

Ah, didn't see your previous post, glad it's nothing too serious then

The oil pump is a gerator type and is fixed displacement. This means the volume of oil and it's pressure output is proportional to it's speed. So at low rpm it had minimum pressure. Obviously as cars get older the bearings wear allowing more pressurised oil to get past. It may be a sign the engine is coming to the end of its service life and needs a rebuild.

Very nice 🙂

So far the work shop manual has been great. Very clear and easy to follow. However, I realised that you and remove the rear timing housing until you also remove 2 hidden bolts from under it. These aren't shown in the manual. One is here on the outside, And one is here in the sump, Then the rear housing came straight off!

Timing housing is stuck fast so I reckon it's going to take a while to slice thro the joint. Been using a butter knife but I might try a feeler gauge tomorrow. However, cams etc are all removed.

It's been raining all day which means i can spend a good day in the garage and it's been very productive. I've now removed the cam sprockets, chains and half way through removing the cam carriers. Tomorrow's job week be to remove the rear timing housing. 🙂