Maybe back off the timing?
--Rocky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gasket Works" <gasket.works@verizon.net>
To: <RLEslEagle@aol.com>
Cc: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] help, please!
> Dick seems to have a problem... are there any mechanics who can help him?
>
> See below.
>
> md
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: RLEslEagle@aol.com
> To: gasket.works@gte.net
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 7:45 PM
> Subject: help, please!
>
>
> Greetings.
> I need the help of this amazing pool of Triumph experience--Dave Swauger
> at
> The Roadster Factory suggested I write. My car--a 1960 TR 3A. Problem,
> after an engine rebuild--TR 4A head; 86 mm sleeves & pistons; new Vicky
> Brit
> street cam, lifters, & push rods; rebuilt SU carbs; etc, I have a
> smooth-running engine that will not go below 2,000 rpm. I have checked
> the
> following:
> 1. The intake manifold flanges have been newly machined flat & do not
> leak
> air (new gaskets, of course). Same with carb to intake manifold--new
> gaskets,
> no leakage. Insulator blocks are the replacement plastic parts which do
> not
> leak.
> 2. The distributor to camshaft gear is aligned correctly and static
> timing
> is at 4 degrees tdc.
> 3. The vacuum advance is holding vacuum & not leaking air. Pipe and
> connection at front carb okay.
> 4. The carb needles are the correct normal codes.
> 5. The carb rebuild included new shafts and bushings--no leakage with
> the
> "carb spray test."
> 5. The valve train is working as normal & is accurately gapped.
>
> The 2,000 "idle" is smooth, not rough, but with the idle adjustment
> screws
> entirely off their bases, the fast idle remains. (The choke enrichment
> cam is
> not hanging the throttle shaft.) The only thing I can now imagine is that
> my
> installation of the cam chain is one link off. But wouldn't that result
> more
> in an uneven idle than an idle twice as fast as normal but smooth?
>
> Any help would be deeply appreciated. The car is a nicely restored
> example
> and I hope to get it on the road as soon as the Ohio winter retreats.
> But,
> there is this idle problem...
> Thanks!
> Dick Eslinger
> Dayton, Ohio
>
>
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