please check out page 144 in Kas Kastner's second Triumph book called Kas
Kastner's Historical & Technical Guide for Triumph Cars.
Ron Meek describes a 360 degree thrust washer setup for my TR6 than cannot
spin.
You may wish to consider this option. Ron did a very good job in coming up
with this design.
It has worked very well in my high performance TR6 engine. Especially once
you ad a high performance pressure plate, etc.
Walt Hollowell
Albuquerque, NM
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of chasgee@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 6:58 PM
To: Gt6steve@aol.com; FOT@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: securing thrust washers
The ones I've had in the past were made of brass secured with brass
countersunk screws. I thinnk the screws were #8s, with the countersink in
the brass manufactured "thrust washer".
Still seems like a strange failure mode. I've run them as tight as 0.004
before without problems. Of course, you make a heck of a lot more power
than I do!
Hope this helps,
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Gt6steve@AOL.COM
To: FOT@autox.team.net
Sent: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:00:27 EDT
Subject: securing thrust washers
Greetings Amici,
Last race the GT6 endured the destruction of the thrust face on my brand
new
hi-Dollar crankshaft. Initially I suspected I'd put the rear thrust washer
in backwards but when I found it in the pan I confirmed this was not the
case. As yet, I don't have a theory as to why it failed but I'm leaning
toward
inadequate clearance for the RPM's. It was right at .006.
My proposed solution will be to grind the crank rear thrust face smooth
again and add a spacer behind the rear thrust washer to compensate. I'm
looking
to set the block up in the drill press and bore both faces from the top in
the relieved area of the washers. Here's where I get a bit loose. I'm
imagining I'd use brass flathead screws in probably 6-32 thread????????
Anybody
have any suggestions or comments on how they did it? I've read for years
these
need to be "silver-pinned" but I've no clue what that is?
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanx, Steve Smith
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