On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Jeff Nathanson wrote:
>
> Fellow Triumphants,
>
> I just removed the cylinder head off of my '72 TR6. To my surprise,
> I saw
> cylinder sleeves in all 6 bores. Is this standard, or did some
> previous owner
> do this?
On a '72, what you might be seeing in the cylinder bores are not sleeves
at all, but simply a recess in the very top of the cylinder wall -- a
feature of the later, low-compression U.S.-spec. Triumph Spitfire, GT6
and TR6 engines.
--Andy
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