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On 6/11/2022 at 8:20 AM, Hamish said:
Tuesday run to a local pub meet. Thought I’d experiment with a different camera position.
whilst you can hear the webers ( nearly as nice as the exhaust imo) I think you’ll agree without some element of the car in the picture it’s ……. Less than interesting.so will think again before 3 sisters sprint on Sunday.
No TR in the shot? Yes, but the Webers more than make up for that. When you are overtaking, the engine sounds really smooth, grunty, POWERFUL.
Ciao for now,
David (might see you at the International Triumph Weekend)
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I echo the excellent feedback from other Forumites. A great read too.
I could see you keeping a diary for one of the national magazines, as a correspondent. Actually, in my view, you are more readable. You add a pinch of humour and a lot of substance. Might it be an idea?
You have inspired me to do the same with the wiring, checking for tightness and greasing connexions. Even I should manage that.
Thanks, Pete. Well done! I'm a fan.
Ciao for now,
David
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25 minutes ago, iain said:
Popped over to France for a Rally which Started in Troyes and finished at the Col De Torini 4 days later.
2340 Miles in the week. Great Weather , a fab trip and many thanks to the Boss for driving yet again
Fantastic! Any more details?
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Only TR on the Johnny Hickey Memorial Run
You will recall my ecstatic reactions to driving a sidescreen TR3 on aeros. Well, yesterday I tested the upper limits of my enthusiasm. "Occasional showers" was the weather forecast, not "downpours" or "heavy rain". So I said to Martin "we'll chance it". His response was "I thought you'd put the windshield back?"
The Millstreet Vintage Club beckoned. Forty minutes to get there, the venue. Sounds like a street, but it's actually a town in Munster County Cork, on the County Bounds. I'd only heard of Millstreet because a rally car shop sold me the wrong fuel pressure gauge and the owner, a former rally driver, declined to sort the Webers last year.
I'd never been to a Classic Car Run in Ireland and neither had Martin, a friend and part of my wife's Irish side of family. A pub with a narrow bar feeding into a very large hall with people trickling in. We were early. Two facing tables one for sign up and the other for joining their Motor Club.
Meantime, a few retired 1970s rally Fords were arriving, including Escorts Mk 1, an RS, as well as a Vauxhall Cresta, I think, two Wolsey saloons (remember the badge lighting up?), and various what we used to call "euroboxes", now old enough to be classic cars, a couple of later Beetles with the embarassingly big rear side lights, and a Renault 4, same as the one my kid sister had in Rome.
We became the "TR3 Boys". After coffee and the locals having their natter, we set off out of town and a carefully planned route — all forty of us — would have been closer to one hundred, but the weather put off a lot of people. Even I could figure out where we were and when to turn off, thanks to their map, big numbers at the junctions, even Guarda with flashing blue lights, and marshals galore. All for an innocent run! Apparently, it's all or nothing here. Off road rallies or runs, and nothing in between. Someone told us his brother was into autotests and we could talk to him.
When we got to the highest pub in Ireland — The Top of Coom — near the Ring of Kerry, a famous pub that has recently reopened after Covid-19 closure, a flat capped gentleman told us he had three TRs, two TR3s and a TR4. "Not for sale", but someone else said he has stashes of spares stored in boxed on tiered shelving. And another thirty-seven classics, not far from here. "You go up that hill and turn left at the junction (which one?) Then I'm a little futher on and you can't miss it". He also had a TR2 which he sold recently and is being restored in Kerry (I actually know the one he is referring to, but have been sworn to silence).
But by this time hunger was more attractive than his steering boxes, twin H6s, and other stuff. "I'm interested in your Webers", he added. But I have not given up on the Webers quite yet. I agree with Peter. 34mm venturis and correct jets would be better than 36mm. Anyway, we exchanged numbers and I hope he lets me take some photographs when we eventually go. Forty classics!
The area is beautiful, even now, before budding Spring and a temperature of 8C. Narrow tracks with the ground falling away on both sides and all the debris from recent storms, the shades of luscious green in the trees. Sudden dramatic vistas. "It's a hill". "No it's not! It's a MOUNTAIN!" "Looks like a hill to me".It felt colder, but wearing waterproof trousers was a good idea. Martin connected the joke electric heater, but our main problem was driving rain and hail stones.
We had to stop twice. Even with wraparound sun glasses on, you're struggling in heavy rain, you can barely see. And if you take them off, it's worse because pelting hailstones get into your eyes. Now I know how far you can push your luck with aeros. Lots of gentle leg pulling, but I don't care. And worse in Cork, one driver in his black 1980s Ford rolled down his window to mock us. One of those moments when you regret not being quick-witted. Later, you think up all sorts of insults. But Martin showed his wisdom; "no point".
But most of the time, it wasn't raining and after we passed the groups of locals watching the old cars go by, we had a couple of stretches behind slow commercial vehicles and could open up. My guess is KST 277 has a fast road cam. When you can see the edges of the steel head gasket, and think oh yes, the Webers, and the difference over 3,500 rpm, and up to 4,500, and this engine doesn't feel stretched at all at 85 mph (which we did while overtaking safely) you get to that conclusion. It's not lumpy at the bottom end, but, from distant memory, there should be a lot more torque than there is low down.
(My guess is that Mark Mason, some time after restoring KST 277, had a notion he'd get involved in competition. But some people enjoy restoring more than driving. So in the end KST was just for the local pub run. Which is good in one sense, because neither he nor the Welsh last owner hardly put any miles on it.).Hence the Webers, the, to me, ugly, Minilites and even, I suspect, straight cut gears. All great, if you're living in the UK and can do what Hamish does, but not here, where it's a distant memory. "Could be the cam", one of the marshals told me at lunch. His brother would know and you can get new Weber parts in Dublin. "Here's the number".
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On 2/27/2022 at 11:40 AM, Drewmotty said:
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I have my own power steering.
Namely, 50+ press ups every morning before my commute to work. It's free, GRATIS, for nothing.
David
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On 2/27/2022 at 4:21 PM, Mark Silverberg said:
The pictures shown in the article from Spain are from the 1958 East Rally. The BRG TR3 license plate URW 74 was purchased by my Father it is featured in many pictures from the Spanish article. The vehicle was chassis number TS30195L and Engine Number TS30732E The pictures from the article are very similar to his so they may have come from some one traveling in close proximity to him. I do still have all of his pictures from his trip, I also still have all original documentation from the trip including participant list - bulletins and a book written by John Trotter regarding his experiences on the trip. I am not presently in a position to share all of this but if there is sufficient interest I can put something together perhaps within a year. Please let me know if you have any interest in the history of this event.
Dear Mark
Yes, very interested! What you have is, I would guess, of interest to anyone in the TR Register, because your documents would be a significant addition to the history.
It might be worth your contacting Wayne because it sounds as if there's plenty of material for a good article in the printed magazine.
Best,
David
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Another query about one of these photographs. This one!
Has anyone ever seen TR3 sidescreens with the aluminium rail-type fastening, instead of lift-a-dots?
I haven't. And, secondly, if they have never been reproduced, would it conceivably be a worthwhile project?
Personally, I find them very attractive. Don't you?
Another question. In the other photograph, there's Ken Richardson, and, I think, Paddy Hopkirk. Who are the other two?
David
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Wonderful, Neil! Well done. What a find!
Very exciting to see these photographs. I wonder, if they are actual (wet photography/analogue) prints, and whether the Register Archive in Didcot does not have copies, would it be worth making copies (s/s) same size, I'm guessing 10×8s, to give the Register? They look as if they have no blemishes whatsoever.
Ciao,
David
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On 12/24/2021 at 9:09 AM, iain said:
Not this one David. Jon had TRW735 a Tr3 1957 Works car. ( In disguise here)
Thanks, Iain!
Only just saw this now. Jon replaced a pranged chassis on OGB 800 which had already had the front end replaced and welded by the vendor Stuart Jenkins when I bought it, with a rust-free (I know, I did the wire brushing beforehand) from California I sourced from young Glen Hewitt. Under all the grease, it was faultless and straight.
Pity, should have let Glen do the job. Enough said!
I wonder whether he is still involved.
Ciao,
David
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Unfinished project?
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I agree with the how would you like it argument, while at the same time feeling I would want to be allowed to simply ask if that's not a high asking price, given what restored cars are fetching. This car is presented as very early, but there are signs of not so early. Said with no malice.
Ciao,
David
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On 10/27/2016 at 8:35 PM, Motorsport Mickey said:
The Revington kit is to help eliminate "Bump Steer".
This is where when one or both wheels hits a bump (or hollow ) in the road which changes two things at once. Firstly it changes the camber angle and also the tracking of the car, gives an impression of a drunken passenger leaning over and snatching the steering wheel.
To give you an idea of how bad it is when you have the body off the car take out the suspension springs from the front and jack the car up on a trolley jack to the top of it's operating range (probably to about 6" from ground level to the bottom of the chassis). If you have the body off the car you can observe the front of the road wheels and tyres as you drop the chassis on the trolley jack smoothly. You'll be amazed at the amount the tyres and wheels first point one way and the other whilst the chassis travels through it's suspension range, I've altered over half a dozen race or road cars and the worst I've found is a change from to toe in to toe out of 14mm ! That's a major steering change and when it happens in action and in real time makes the car handle very badly. On a windy up window model (TR4 through to TR7) it's easy and cheap to check and change the steering geometry by lifting or dropping the steering rack to eliminate it. The sidescreen cars are more difficult because the steering box is fixed but you can alter the Steering arms by heating and bending (this is what Peter W describes in his earlier post), and what Revington can supply with the work cut out for you.
If you want an easy way to measure your Bump Steer that you can do yourself PM me your e mail address and I'll send a little article (with photo) that describes and shows how to do it. This is also available to all other members who may want it (currently over 100 other members have so far requested it).
Mick Richards
Mick,
If possible, would you send me a digital version of this article? It sounds useful for the Bonanza Collection"?
Ciao for now,
David
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On 10/31/2016 at 8:11 PM, BlueTR3A-5EKT said:
Silentbloc & Pin - replacements
My brother's TR2 has the Revington phosphor bronze bushes and pins fitted and my TR3A has the Moss Delrin bushes and pins fitted.
For our money there is no obvious difference when driving either of the cars.
I suspect in service the Delrin ones on my car will wear faster than the phosphor bronze bushes. The phospor bronze ones we have are greaseable whereas the Delrin has no lubrication system other than the inherent self lubricating properties of the Delrin bush.
Steering Idler with phospor bronze bushes. replacements
The ones fitted to both our cars I made using 5/8" close tolerance bolts from my old aircraft spares stock. The bushes in the idler housing are regular TR lower wishbone/trunion pin bushes plus bronze thrust washers. (pt no 101615 - 2 per housing)
Phosphor bronze flanged bushes are available from the usual bearing suppliers -- you will want 5/8 id x 3/4 od x 1 1/8 at about a fiver each -- http://simplybearings.co.uk/shop/Bearings-Oil-Filled-Bronze-Bushes-Oil-Filled-Bronze-Flange-Bushes/c3_4511_4771/index.html
Work involved machining the idler housing, drilling for a grease nipple, cutting out the old pin from the lever & welding the bolt back in. Then set the end float of the lever in the housing.
I note the Revington one has a big slotted nut and split pin to set the end float & stop it all coming adrift.
Peter W
Peter,
Any idea when the Revington steering kit was introduced? The restorer of KST 277, Mark Mason, told me he had fitted it. Now that would have been no later than April 1994, judging from the dates.
I was reading this thread and it made me wonder (not wander(!)).
The car's steering is certainly arrow-straight. No sign of wandering whatsoever. Can it be as long ago as then?
David
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4 hours ago, Roadster64basket said:
Thank you Ralph and Roger...as soon as possible i'll speak with my mechanic...
and i'll inform you about it...
Marco
Marco,
Ciao. Se ti vai a vedere nel settore "General Technical", troverai una lista di articoli sotto il titolo: "Bonanza". Me li passano i soci, ed io li aggiungo man mano. Oggi ho aggiunto un articolo sull'A Type Overdrive, che avrà informazioni utili per te. Buona notte,
David
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On 2/20/2022 at 12:12 PM, BlueTR3A-5EKT said:
Give it a TT or RTR part number and we’ll be millionaires Rodders.
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Well done Pete for hanging in there, despite obstructions!
Such attention to detail is also a lesson in itself. I should learn from your example of perseverance or grim determination. I can think of several things I prefer to avoid. Amazing that different-size washers make such a big difference! Roll on next BFG instalment!
Ciao for now,
David
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I totally agree with you John and Hamish. It is nice to see your everyday TR2. It's how I use my 3, whenever I get a chance.
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4 hours ago, BlueTR3A-5EKT said:
Great to see you are out and about David.
Been a long time since I was in Kinsale, that was in 1967. From memory we stayed at an hotel called The Trident and went boat fishing for a day.
Yes, Peter.
Kinsale is generally too posh for me. But driving around is quite different. And with aeros? It was FANTASTIC!!! Really exhilarating.
I've just edited the set of photographs I took and put them in the KST spot. It's rather fun to weave a (true) story around the photographs. No fibs. You remember more when you put the two together, and memory highways and byways also mix, I find.
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Hi Deggers,
Very late, but also from me, well, at this point, it's more a case of "sweet dreams", I guess. Ciao for now,
David
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Marco,
qui si parla di DUE filtri. Per evitare confusione. Uno per evitare l'intasamento del tubo col carburante, l'altro, per filtare l'olio dell'overdrive. Del secondo, non ne sapevo niente!
Tieni anche conto che l'olio degli ingranaggi del cambio, overdrive compreso, si deve scaldare. In partenza non va usato. Devi fare un po' di strada e solo quando raggiungi la temperatura di crociera, per così dire, solo a quel punto lo inneschi.
Io lo uso scalando da quarta in terza, per aumentare l'accelerazione e in quarta. Sui modelli TR2-3A funziona anche in seconda, ma non serve. Poi ricordati che devi disinnescare PRIMA di scalare in prima. Non lasciare innescato da fermo.
Ciao,
David
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Well, only yesterday, encouraged by the end of Storm Eustace bad weather, devastating more for you in Great Britain than in Ireland, I followed your advice and fitted the aeroscreens that I bargained for with TR Bitz, on the grounds that the car had had them and here was my internet proof in a photo from the 1990s. I was right!
The Welsh owner's widow offered them for sale after the sale, having found them in his garage. She really missed him, a Welsh Register member told me.
As for Peter Wigglesworth's anodized plinths which I had mounted ages ago, only now could I really appreciate what a snug fit they are into the Brookland aeros. Unlike chrome, they seem to put up with me not polishing them all the time.
This was my maiden voyage using aeros. I had never driven a sidescreen TR with aeros before. It never occurred to me, when I was the rightful or wrongful owner of Phil Brown's TR2 (and yes, let's face it, it went to a really good home).
Aeros really are something else. A sense of completion came over me. I realized that this is how motoring should be.
And off we went for a drive down to the coast. There are some nice long stretches where you can open up as well as a healthy mixture of bends, and when the sign says so, you better believe it. The roads were empty and traces of the storm few.
The exhilaration of driving without the windscreen hits you immediately. I was reminded of what it felt like riding my one and only motorbike years ago; a Benelli 125cc. This feels more like, I imagine, sitting in a First World War Sopwith Camel cockpit. The wind is just everywhere. The sky closer, the road too. And the sea! "Thalassa, Thalassa!" — as Homer gets someone to say in the Odyssey, or was it the whole crew? Can't remember.
Fact is, you are immediately enveloped in the scenery. And you notice more of what is going on around you. I didn't bother with the heater. One of those little electric devices. Waste of time. We did turn it on (you connect it to the cigarette lighter socket, you see) on the way back. What a joke it is. I'll flog it at Stafford or chuck it.
Where did we go? Kinsale again, but this time to the rugged landscape, a few miles outside the harbour. The sea was more grey than blue, and I struggled with the light on my small camera, the Sony RX100 with the zoom lens. The Sony Alpha III would have been better, but the colours too "correct".
Ireland can be very dramatic, rather like parts of Wales. It's not the height of hills, but the cut of them, and how they break away into the sea, that is so striking. That, and the change from one kind of landscape to a completely different one, just like that.
I had this silly grin on my face most of the time. Good job wet suits exist, which is why this guy with his sail could survive the cold. They call that "fun".
The couple coming up the slope towards KST are Polish and I let them take photos. "It's like a tractor!" The wife remarked, but only after she was well established in the driver's seat. "No, it's not! It's a sportscar", I replied, almost regretting my earlier kindness. But they weren't listening. Their respective Facebooks were more urgent.
A tractor? Did you hear that, KST? Perish the thought. Was it our much missed Graham Robson who reminded us not so long ago that the TR engine is NOT a Massey Furgoson tractor lump?
And this, my dear friends, is The Old Head of Kinsale, at least it was, yesterday. There's a new golf course on it, since the land was sold off. Caused a big fuss, and rightly so. The good news is that there's a restaurant or something like that, open to anyone. Obviously, it was closed.
A closer shot. A lighthouse just visible. And an ancient tower. Lots of those around, but my ignorance and laziness is such that I know nothing about any of them, and this sordid state of affairs may never change.
"You'll love the Bulman, everyone loves it!"
Which we soon discovered was quite true. So much so that there was a forty-five minute wait to even get a seat. "People are not moving when they've finished their meal", the waiter explained.
Plan B? There's always a Plan B.
King prawn and chips with baby spinach salad, not a posh place, but plenty of parking and only the odd local, playing snooker or sat at the bar. They stared. We said hello. This really was their local and the Bulman for tourists. No one was wearing a mask, except the bar maids who have to for a few more days. Now they were very nice and asked us several times if the food was nice. I began saying it was, but she was already out of earshot.
Seems Covid-19 is finally over this time.
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I bought them a while ago, but only fitted them yesterday. I put plastic bungs in the holes left from the Brooklands aeros screw mountings, and some were covered by these new original-looking ones. A perfect fit! Worth the cost. They just look so good. Actually, it was my maiden voyage with aeros. EXHILARATING! I took the precaution of checking the weather. Some Forumites gave advice on how to do it correctly. And off we went to The Old Head of Kinsale. Even more spectacular than just having the top off. And yes, it drizzled on the way home, but not enough to get into the cockpit, which really is the appropriate word, once a sidescreen is fitted with aeros.
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On 2/18/2022 at 6:47 PM, Roadster64basket said:
Hello everyone, today I went to pick up the TR3 from the mechanic, the main problem was dirty gasoline. Most likely the last time I refueled I loaded the bottom of the container. In any case we proceeded to do a general check of the electrical parts and on Sunday, weather permitting, I will do a nice test drive.
Marco, potrebbe essere un'idea istallare un filtro, che ne dici? Se scegli uno buono, ma trasparente, e lo metti nel vano motore, ma non accanto al blocco, se si intasa, te ne accorgerai subito, ed è facile svuotarlo o sostituirlo.
Ciao,
David
Seeing Roman Britain by TR2
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All I know is that it was a monotheistic religion, very widespread among rank and file, with Eastern elements combined, from Persia, so dualist, it seems. Then Christianity swept it away.