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  1. HMaze
    Hi John, again a fantastic build!!! Found this online, maybee of interest for you: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eu6k-mrym/data.htm Harry
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    The cutout was made for the US cat models, not for the twin downpipe. Harry
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    And no: not 3x35A fuses but 3x35A/17,5A continous LUCAS fuses! More like 3x modern 17,5A fuses! (more likely 15A). Harry
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    Hi Howard, does your cylinder bores have a recess on top of the bore? The early MkIV engines up to engine# FH25.000 had no recess. The head gasket you show looks like one for recessed bore. Harry
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    The spacing of the wheel boxes is only an optical indicator for the changes in the wiper mechanism. Triumph used different wiper motors, with different shaft & gear sets and different wheelboxes. The change in the spacing was introduced with the 1969 US Mk3 spitfire model. The one with the new instrument layout that later became the MkIV layout. The US models got therefore allready the 2 speed wiper motor (the round 14W!). The change point is commision # FDU 31.254; body# 20001FG for the US, body # 30196FD for LHS and 30785FD for RHS. The body panel under the windscreen was changed from part # 807379 to part # 816499. The single speed wiper motor was changed from part # 513961 to part # 510985, and the internal shaft & gear changed from part # 513926 to part # 511007. The wheel boxes were changed from part # 134746 to part # 151219. The 1969 US Mk3 used the same wheel boxes, part # 151219 together with the new round, 2 speed wiper motor 14W, part # 517621 with the shaft & gear part # 517646. Shaft & gear 517646 (115°), is the same gear that was used in RHS GT6 Mk2 and LHS TR6 and in Land Rover Defender 90/110 to 1A622423 2001; Lucas part # 54702584. On the MkIV and later on the 1500, the wiper motor part # 517621 was used, but with a different shaft & gear, part # 520101 (100°) and with different wheel boxes, part # 155430. Harry
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    Hi Roger, I think that is exactly what this harness does. It does not split into the wires from the light switch to the headlights, but uses one of the headlight connectors to switch the relays. One of my concerns would be the lenght of the harness with only 1,5m Harry
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    DM engine

    HMaze replied to WIMPUS's topic in Engine

    Hi Wim, I can only tell about my own experience with triumph exchange engines. Back in the days when triumph still existed I blew my MkIV 1300 engine (engine number FHxxxHE). The dealer sold me a new short engine, (block, crankshaft, conrods and pistons) engine number DHxxxESS on an exchange basis. Everything else had to be reused or bought new. Since the different compression ratio was realised by the cylinder head there was no real problem. In your case I would check the head number.(TKC1155?) Harry
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    http://club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1421151133/ Harry
  9. HMaze
    The "T" was introduced on engine# FH59689 and further, together with rerouted hoses to the heater, and new return pipe. FH was 1300 with HS2 carbs. On the 1500 manifold the heating and the balance chanels changed place. Harry
  10. HMaze
    Hi Wim, it should be connected like any other coil. Harry
  11. HMaze
    B-series also. Yes rockrockmcrock, you are right. The parts catalogs show it wrong. There are lots of small and big errors is those drawings. They are nice to look at, but don't trust them in every details. The people that made those drawings probably only ever saw a few parts. For example the alternator in the 1500 parts catalog: no one could mount it in the way it is shown in the drawing. Harry
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    "From memory this is a 1300 head with 2 x small exit ports in the centre, rather than the 1x bigger one of the 1500 (the other 2 exhaust ports and 2 inlet ports are identical between versions if I remember rightly). I don't have head number to hand, but the above exit ports is a positive id one way or another I think - I presume this is what you mean by twinned although I was under the impression that the 1500 manifold was also of a single bore at the centre port?" that is not true. the heads look physically the same from the outside. 8-ports. You need to check the head number, stamped in over the 3rd cylinder to identify the head to be a 1500 or a 1300. Putting a 1300 head on a 1500 block (UK) would raise the compression ratio from 9,0:1 t0 aprox 10,2:1 See the list of paul geithner: http://auskellian.com/paul/links_files/performance_enhancements.htm#heads Harry
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    Those are not original MKIV HS2 carbs! Harry
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    Hi hyberhale, it has probably been changed, because the PO put some early HS2 (up to Mk3) on a MkIV inlet manifold. Mk3 used a PCV valve on the inlet manifold (blanking plug on the right), while the MKIV used two connections on the carbs themselves. Harry
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    Hi Dany, when the wiper stalk is moved to the single wipe, the circuit R/LG to N/LG is brocken (1st speed to selfpark return). One end of the spring stays on the green contact, and the other end is connected to the 1st speed (R/LG), so the motor starts running. When you let go of the stalk the motor is again in the self park mode and runs to it's end position. The "red spring" is only to show how it is bend. You can see the form of the real spring above. Harry
  16. HMaze
    Hi Dany, yes, the moving down position for single wipe does need the spring. It is wound around the stalk axis and clamps the contact with the green wire. Picture shows a LHD one!!! Harry
  17. HMaze
    Hi Wim, maybe it is just the bearing of the lost motion lever that is sticking. Look at the canley diagram part no 36 a-e. 36c and 36d are small tubes. The inner one is slightly longer than the outer one. If the inner one wears or is tightend to much, the whole system starts to stick. You could try to leave the washer 36b out, or just loose the screw 36a a bit. Harry
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    Hi Dion, the yellow one doesn't look like a Mk3, at least the front does not. If it is a Mk3 someone already changed the complete front. Triumph used up the bonnets of the Mk2, but put an aluminium plith over the two separate lights for the square single one. The irons and grill were altert to mk3. The front valance lost ist cutouts for the bumper irons. The yellow one shows all parts of a Mk2 front. Harry
  19. HMaze
    on short drive shafts the brake hose is directly mounted to the wheel cylinder, on long driveshafts there is an additional brake line between the brake hose and the wheel cylinder on the brake back plate. Harry
  20. HMaze
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-P6-Lucas-Windscreen-Wiper-Washer-Switch-34672B-All-Working-1966-/111178121761?nma=true&si=B806Cmd6JX9V8NXUfooVkFESJgA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 cheers, Harry
  21. HMaze
    Hi Benny, look for Rover P6 or Lamborghini Miura. cheers, Harry
  22. HMaze
    Hi Steve, check the green wire on the motor. There should be 12 Volt to make the motor to run to the park position. If not, it can't. As said above: The wiper switch on the dashboard connects red/lightgreen (1st speed) to brown/lightgreen (wire to park switch). In the "not parked" position the green wire (12volt) is connected to brown/lightgreen wire inside the park switch, so the motor can run to its park position in 1st speed. When it reaches its park position the connection, brown/lightgreen to green, is opened and the motor stops. Cheers, Harry
  23. HMaze
    In the OFF position the red/lightgreen wire is connected to the brown/lightgreen wire by the switch. this enables the motor to run to the park position. Cheers, Harry
  24. HMaze
    The older stalks had a brown/red wire from the main light switch to the stalk. Later were blue. So brown/red (stalk) goes on blue (main harness). Small brown to purple. Harry
  25. HMaze
    Hi BiTurbo228, one interresting thing my excel spead sheet showed, was playing around with the petrol tank. Using the GT6 petrol tank in the boot instead of the spitfire petrol tank on the rear axle, adds more weight on the rear and subtracts weight from the front. It also puts the CG lower and should be a nice counterbalance for the driver in a RHD car. On the negative side, it puts the fuelcell in the crash zone, and spreads the weight of the car too far from the center. Just a thought.. Cheers, Harry
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