CP26309
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My Lucas System still works fine, even the pump! 50 years of ownership this very day!
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Oil it is then!
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I didn't learn anything new, so I must have been doing it right these past 50 years!
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Thanks for sharing that, I just ordered it for mine, many years ago (in the leaded fuel days) a garage replaced my rubber return drain with an incorrect rubber pipe which popped off causing an engine fire! Which in turn taught me the lesson to always carry a BIG fire extinguisher!
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My original Water Pump had a grease nipple facility blanked with a bolt, how come the after market Water pumps don't have this?
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Really? My Dizzy has always been at that angle! My plug tool is a box type spanner with a universal joint just above the spanner bit, and the thin shaft fits between the servo and the dizzy body just fine!
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When I got my Pi version in 1972 the recommended plugs were Champion N9Y, I found these often oiled up, or got wetted with fuel after starting up, and rarely cleared themselves when the engine was up to working temperature. Which meant pulling over to hunt for the culprit! I would then wipe it dry and swop it with a hot clean one from another cylinder! Not something that these days would be acceptable when driving. Over the years I changed to NGK BP6ES, and despite many more miles on the clock the NGK's have never let me down like the Champions did when the car had hardly any miles on the clock!
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When I first got my 69 CP it had it's original black and yellow striped hoses!
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On 6/9/2022 at 1:41 PM, Rob Salisbury said:
Marco, you have to remember that in their day these were cheap mass produced sports cars meant to be thrashed to death and die young!! ... the fact that so many have survived into their 50's and 60's is testament to just how strong they are (helped by sympathetic owners and a tremendous spare parts supply system) .... Triumph, in their day, were always strapped for cash and got things done the best they could, and we are the lucky ones who still have these toys to play with!!
Cheers Rob
Well said that man!
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We want pics, we want pics!...! Next month I'll have owned my CP 6 Pi for 50 yrs! During that time I have owned a Maserati 4.7 V8 and a 4.2 E Type Jag (both Red), they've both been and gone ! But the TR remains, which tells you something. I wanted a Red one, but everyone I went to see back in 1972 was White, so it was and still is.
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And as an after thought...the reason that original multipart jack handle is rare, is I would hazard a guess most original owners dispensed with it as too fiddley to stow, displacing it with a more simple short one piece jack handle. My 69 CP car which I bought when it was just under 3 years old had the original jack, and empty strap, and a short one piece jack handle. Maybe Standard Triumph replaced it, and shop floor assemblers carried on fitting the strap?
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William, your explanation seems to be the answer to solve this 'Strap Mystery' Although I have never seen that type of multi piece jack handle. But as your Jack, hub cap leaver and wheel brace are defiantly period correct, one has to accept your Jack handle may well be original too. The Strap would certainly stop it rattling about! Thank you for finally solving this mystery!
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Original Lucas pump works fine on mine for the last 50 years!
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Here's the original TR factory Jack, and the original TR factory Tool Roll which is which 10.5 inches long (27cm) which clearly would not fit into the wheel well space let alone the strap!
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My 69 CP owned 50 years has a Green Oil Light.
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I have a period correct replica tool role, with all the correct old style tools, and no way does it fit into that gap, nor does the strap present it's self in a way to hold the roll, which is too fat and too long! I also still have the original tiny scissor jack that was supplied with the car from the factory, and that doesn't fit either! It's a mystery!!!
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On 5/19/2022 at 12:38 AM, zelrik said:
I suggest you get a packet of 6 cheap disposable plastic Baby Bottles.
Place the injectors inside & you can see whats flowing or not through the hose.
But don't give them back to baby...One Petrol Head in a family is enough! ;-)
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I use a glass jar with a finger sized hole in the lid, and pop the offending injector through, to isolate it with the engine running. When fitting new or reconditioned injectors I have always found they self bleed.
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In 1976 I did a 'Run what ya brung' Drag Race at Blackbushe with a totally standard 1969 CP Pi TR6 and got a best 1/4 mile Elapsed Time of 15.37 seconds, with a terminal speed of 84mph. Against the Stop watch I have recorded a best 0-60mph in 7.5 seconds, and a best ever top speed at max 5,750 rpm (non overdrive car) of 121 mph.
Having said all that, don't do it too often...as it wreaks the Thrust Washers, tears teeth off yer Crown Wheel, and balds the spinning tyre! Expensive!
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I remember when the latest TR6 came out with a spoiler. So I added one to my 1969 car back in the early 70's. I just held it in position and marked the holes with a sharpie pen through the spoiler holes, making sure it was central. Years later when the originality bug bit, I sold the spoiler on ebay and filled the holes in. The things we do eh!
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My Engine was last rebuilt in 1979 at 61,600 miles, that's less than 14,000 miles ago.
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I fitted an after market one two years ago, no problems what so ever!