MarkDeTriomphe

Are these the seats you bought from me last Summer (North Dorset)? They look amazing!

Free to a good home : pair of early MKII seats in brown. Non headrest and diaphragms missing. The drivers seat also has a tear as shown in the photos. Does anyone want to save them? Located in North Dorset.

The car that really got me hooked on the Triumph marque.

Team 72 - 2023 will be my 7th RBRR but the fist time for this car and my daughter, so fingers crossed.

I think you are lucky - most recycling centres won't take them now. However, farmers use old tyres to weigh down silage clamps ... I managed to lose 8 tyres only this morning. What is the Z design Clive? Any photos of your changer please? I only pay £10 per corner locally but even that stings a bit. Thanks, Mark

Hi Ben - good to meet you at the weekend, Mark

When I did mine, I just cut the rear deck out because the donor car had been left upside down and the wings had rotted away. However, most people seem to take the top of the wings as well.

Many thanks to Nigel and the timekeepers - your efforts are much appreciated.  We had a brilliant day and well worth the 5 o'clock start.

That's just cheating - that's a job for doing half way round the event!

That's shocking - how do people let their cars get into such a state (whistle) I bet it's been standing around in someone's shed for 20 years and was of unknown condition before that  (whistle) (whistle)

Does it still rely on the original vacuum retard to get a 3D mapping?  If so I'm not sure how easy it would be to fine tune.

Richard_B wrote: Really; those ramps, they look familiar.... :-/ I understand they're still in use 24 years after that photo was taken ;) As has been pointed out above, you can't beat wood for supporting heavy objects.

Richard_B wrote: Health 'n Safety gone mad.    No idea who this is by the way  :o And you really don't want to see what the axle stands were actually holding up!

timbancroft61 wrote:Anyone seen the timing results? email just arrived from Nigel

Video with a few runs attached complete with commentary from Tim - although I'm not sure who was getting angry at 3:00  :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yjf4MsJP8U&feature=youtu.be Mark Edit ...... for anyone out there who fancies trying this but is too nervous - that's my little girl having a bash after just four driving lessons and making it look easy!  So it really is a fun day out for everyone!

Fantastic day out - many thanks to the organisers and timekeepers for making this such a great event. The younger deTriomphe thoroughly enjoyed herself and is totally hooked - promises to try harder when she has rid herself of the L-plates  ;) Mark

Sorry for the late response.  If it's not too late, my entry will be in the post tomorrow (two drivers). Thanks, Mark

piman wrote:Hello Mark, what springs are fitted, they look quite heavy duty? No sign of spring binding? Personally I would say that nick would not have caused the fracture as it actually fractured ahead of the nick. Alec Hi Alec, They are XJ40 springs - no sign of binding and I believe not heavy duty / have been used by many others without issue. And a little more background: The whole engine assembly had supposedly only done about 3000 miles since a professional rebuild - the shaft and rockers all looked like new (repro) items - except that the faces on at least 4 of the rockers had been eaten away and could not be re-used (hence the older looking rockers in the photo). And .. I did forget to mention that I was on my way home from this year's CT autosolo - so the engine had been bouncing off the rev limiter all day.  This might not have helped  ;) Mark

2601 wrote:I thought that was what you were getting at. There does indeed appear to be a small indentation in the edge section. However this is on the compression side of the arm so wouldn't be heavily loaded. Looking at the surface structure of the crack face it looks as though it was an instantaneous clean break. The push rod is seriously bent and broken suggesting a siezed valve. Roger Roger - I agree with you regarding the break.  Will get it out again tomorrow to check, but I assumed it was a clean break. However, the push rod came from the exhaust valve - assumption is that the broken piece of (inlet) rocker flew over to the exhaust side and jammed the pushrod against the side of its channel - causing it to bend until it could go no further and finally snapping! Engine has been running since - suggesting valves are OK - except that it is now playing up again so further investigation needed. Mark  

Nick_Jones wrote:Genuine NOS - fine (think only one hand still available?) other offerings seem to be rather crap.  I was given sight of a freshly broken new one recently and it was not a high quality item in finish or material.  Suspect a refaced and bushed (if needed) original would last alot longer. Nick A bit like this one?  :'( .  I was only driving gently at the time, honest! Mark

Andy Harrison ?

I experienced a similar issue once when the oil pump pickup had fallen off and into the sump.  Admittedly I noticed the drop in pressure on cornering rather than acceleration -  I had to top the oil up much higher than the top mark on the dipstick just to get me home! I hope this has not happened to yours  :-/ Mark