The
Stag engine rebuild is continuing. We have received the crankshaft
and cylinder block back from the engineers reground and rebored
respectively and refitted them to each other with new bearing shells,
thrust washers and pistons. The cylinder heads also returned from
having new valve guides fitted and being refaced and have now been
refitted with new valves, all duly lapped in, new cam buckets and
mostly new tappet shims too. These are all now back in with the
camshafts in place and ready for refitting to the block just as soon
as the paint on that is fully dry.
Meanwhile
we have had the pleasure of gaining a new customer by word of mouth
recommendation from an existing customer, and have had a look at his
very recent purchase of a nice shiny red TR6. It came in with a
misfire/holding back issue and poor brakes. The misfire turned out to
be nothing much more sinister than a couple of recalcitrant
injectors; the brake problem was mainly down to geriatric DOT 3 or 4
type fluid the colour of Newgate’s Knocker which had unfortunately
had Silicon type fluid added to it! This took a while to suck back
out of the reservoir and then flush completely out of the rest of the
system, but some other things we found were a bit more problematic.
The
principle issues were a distinct lack of weld holding the body mount
brackets to some repair sections welded between the floorpans and
sills and also holding the plates to the floor! Apart from that there
were some alarming gaps at the rear of the sill to floor areas, two
seat anchorages which had pulled through the floorpan and were in
danger of coming completely adrift and some column stalk wires which
were trapped by the channel designed to protect them. Luckily we were
able to resolve all of these little problems and the customer now has
the car he wanted.
