yorkshire_spam Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Stripped the carbs/manifolds and OSF suspension off the Spitfire ready to tackle some rust on the chassis.... found that the previous owner has welded the rear wishbone bracket to the chassis rather than tackle the rust properly. Oh joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobPearce Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 Grit blasted, rust treated and primed a pair of headlight surrounds for the Vitesse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Dawes Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 1 hour ago, yorkshire_spam said: Stripped the carbs/manifolds and OSF suspension off the Spitfire ready to tackle some rust on the chassis.... found that the previous owner has welded the rear wishbone bracket to the chassis rather than tackle the rust properly. Oh joy. 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin R Posted October 21, 2022 Share Posted October 21, 2022 I have just sprayed the wheels on my trolley jack with WD40. Life changing as I can move it without the need for ear defenders and it goes like a greyhound. Faster than the car now ! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iani Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 GT6: Today was the day I was going to replace an errant oil control ring, restore compression and refit engine, unfortunately that didn't go to plan. On removing the piston the rings looked ok, on removing them however a large chunk of piston fell off. I will see how the vendor reacts on Monday, I am certainly not fitting the same type of pistons to this engine again however. PI Saloon: wash & brush up post visit to Wales last weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1147cc Posted October 23, 2022 Share Posted October 23, 2022 finally installed a heater; 5spd; speedo cable; radio; door handles on my GTR5. still need to install my S2 cam and shave the head on the GT6 motor in it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteStupps Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 On 22/10/2022 at 17:17, iani said: On removing the piston the rings looked ok, on removing them however a large chunk of piston fell off. I will see how the vendor reacts on Monday, I am certainly not fitting the same type of pistons to this engine again however Yikes, that's a surprise. What pistons are these out of interest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iani Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 10 hours ago, PeteStupps said: Yikes, that's a surprise. What pistons are these out of interest? JP Pete, Australian, in the end two of the pistons had broken lands. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Dawes Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 1 hour ago, iani said: JP Pete, Australian, in the end two of the pistons had broken lands. 😔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteStupps Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 3 hours ago, iani said: JP Pete, Australian, in the end two of the pistons had broken lands. Bugger, they're meant to be the good ones! Have you had bad experiences with County pistons? I've heard 2nd hand complaints but not had any issues so far. But I'm not running massive compression or anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glang Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Complicated because couldnt there be other factors involved? Bore dimensions, ring size, running in procedure etc.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iani Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 20 minutes ago, glang said: Complicated because couldnt there be other factors involved? Bore dimensions, ring size, running in procedure etc.... The bore size had been checked at Engineering works, the rings are Gates of the right size. The engine was being run in reasonably gently, I was keeping it below 3k RPM and not letting the engine strain too much. I have an AFR gauge fitted and the mixture was typically running 13.5 - 14.7, only going lean briefly on overrun. I have had a number of issues with this build and was taking particular care this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glang Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Be interesting to see what the company say as two failures must surely mean theres something in common.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iani Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 6 hours ago, PeteStupps said: Bugger, they're meant to be the good ones! Have you had bad experiences with County pistons? I've heard 2nd hand complaints but not had any issues so far. But I'm not running massive compression or anything I'm fitting County ones this time, hopefully with a better outcome. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bancroft Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 No problem with County pistons in the relatively new engines I have in my GT6 and TR6. I have not heard of anyone having issues with them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Stuff done: Dolomite now has carpets, MGF front seats now fitted and Gill has a plan to spruce up the rear seats. The servo was non-operative, but it turned out to be a collapsed vacuum hose, a new piece is on order to replace the "borrowed for test purposes" Next job is to fit all the front lights and all chromework as long as my Bresco order of lots of clips etc actually went through. I guess I ought to be thinking of booking an MoT! In other news, we have taken a deposit on our red spitfire, odd story involving a funeral. But it is off to France, so is being returned to std specification. Yellow spitfire sulking in a lockup garage for a few weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iani Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 GT6: Well the pistons are all in, unfortunately however an ARP conrod bolt snapped, it's the third time this set had been torqued up, this was the last one too, work has stopped until replacement set arrives and I will change all just in case. I have another head coming for this engine sometime this week, reducing to an 11:1 CR, should have adequate power but stepping back from the edge a bit. TR6: I have been seeing intermittent electrical issues, when I rewired the car I couldn't get replacement standard fusebox that I was happy with the quality of and reused the original, most recently with some tinfoil maintaining contact for one of the fuses. Today I finally swapped it out for a modern blade fuse holder, hopefully this will prove more reliable. 2.5 PI Saloon: Oil & filter change, I'm sure it's running rich as the oil goes black quite quickly. I chased down the fog light wire built into the standard loom and tested the switch with a Lucas Square 8 foglight, all works, have a pair of brackets coming and will aim to fit the fogs soon. Whilst I had the grill off I replaced the mixed rusty screws holding it in with a set of new ones. I also hardwired my dash cam into the fusebox, one less thing to plug in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Loads of non-Triumphy distractions at the moment. Trying to clear space in the garage to get the Dolomite back in, but got distracted stripping the spare Dolomite axle ready for blasting/paint. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) 36 minutes ago, yorkshire_spam said: Loads of non-Triumphy distractions at the moment. Trying to clear space in the garage to get the Dolomite back in, but got distracted stripping the spare Dolomite axle ready for blasting/paint. Do we need a thread for, "What have you been doing instead of working on your Triumph?" Edited October 30, 2022 by Craig 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Craig said: Do we need a thread for, "What have you been doing instead of working on your Triumph?" That'd be pretty boring if I contributed... fixing daughter's modern car, clearing garage out and working. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRTOM2498 Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 TR6: CVB6H- LSD rebuild kit has arrived. Now time to fit it in for rebuild. TR6: CNU346L- Wash it after a recent Wales trip and clean up for the NEC show in a couple of weeks. Will try & squeeze and MOT in before then, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Does "picking things up from the powder coaters" count as working on the car? 😉 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Dawes Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 17 hours ago, yorkshire_spam said: Does "picking things up from the powder coaters" count as working on the car? 😉 Yep 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Arnold Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 (edited) Have just renewed the antifreeze in the Vitesse then took it for a 20 mile run to make sure that there was no airlock in the cooling system. Edited November 10, 2022 by Pete Arnold typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glang Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Heater working ok I hope? Might need a top up now, at least of the overflow bottle (assuming it uses one), to replace any air thats been released - then the overflow pipe should stay full pretty much at all times from now on👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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