You are confusing the A series with the original bone stock 1500. It usually
dropped the thrust washers around 50K and that would shell out the crank. There
are things to do to prevent that from happening, Triumph just didn't do it from
the factory.
Brad
----- Original Message -----
From KrkLH at cs.com
Sent: 12/2/2004 1:52:31 PM
To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Original Intended Life Span of a Type A
> Motor. I have heard different things about the intended life spans of the
> 948 and 1275 engines. Were they originally designed to be pretty much used
>up
> by the time they hit 50k miles?
>
> I have a 948 with an original 64k miles on it and a rebuilt 1275 in my
> Bugeye. The 1275 only has about 100 miles on it.
>
> Thanks - Kirk
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