At 05:04 PM 5/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
> I have never replaced a TR engine head gasket, but I have been told a
> multiplicity of times by several different knowledgeable people that
> turning the engine over to pop the head gasket is a very bad idea
> because the wet sleeves tend to come out of the block. Could be an old
> wives' tale, but I've heard it several times over the past year.
Okay, I'll bite. I'll admit that most of my experience in the head removal
dept. comes with the venerable B-series BMC engine found in the MGA and
MGB, but no fancy business was needed to remove these heads (other than,
perhaps, a few raps with a stout hammer). Why the need to turn over the TR
engine in the fisrt place? What makes it necessary w/this mill?
Normally, I wouldn't care about TR engines, being as I am the proud (and
'umble) owner of a 4/4 (that not ironically, appears to be wanting a new
head gasket?), but with the recent purchase of a TR engined (gasp) TVR, I'm
possibly looking at the future here?? Furthermore, any dig on Greg P. is
also a good excuse as far as I'm concerned anyway (big smile, Greg)!
Will Zehring (who is immeasureably happy)
p.s. regarding latent virus, as a molecular geneticist at one of our
nation's premier medical schools, I concur with all discussions on this
topic. I am tempted to suggest that the SCV may be a retrovirus variant,
as it tends to draw the victim into the retrocar.
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