In all of real life I have never ever heard of that really happening. I
had 2 1500's at over 90,000. Still had not "dropped" the thrust washer.
The only one I ever heard about was mine. And that dropped due to a bad
fit on my part. and it dropped at around 8000.
Prove it, beyond hear say, or stuff it.
Larry
On Dec 2, 2004, at 4:06 PM, "" <toyman@digitex.net>
<toyman@digitex.net> wrote:
> 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@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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