>From: "Hill, Stephen M EDUC:EX" <Stephen.Hill@gems7.gov.bc.ca>
>Reply-To: "Hill, Stephen M EDUC:EX" <Stephen.Hill@gems7.gov.bc.ca>
>To: "'triumphs-digest@autox.team.net'" <triumphs-digest@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Tappets
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:06:10 -0700
>
>Greg Petrolati wrote about some engine modifications to his TR4:
>
>"I also switched out the stock tappets and got tappets and sleeves from a
>Ford GT40"
>
>Does anybody know if this works on a TR6 engine? Also, what are we calling
>sleeves here??
This is a mod that is offered by British Frame & Engine. I don't
know if they will fit a TR6 motor. The GT40 tappets are smaller in
diameter than the holes in the TR2-4 block so steel sleeves were
designed to be slipped into the bores... The recommendation was that
the sleeves be chilled in the freezer for a couple of hours and lock-
tited or epoxied into the lifter bores. The advantages are the Ford
lifters are harder/lighter than the stock units. They also have a
hole drilled into the side of the lifter to allow oil to drain out.
`Works like a charm.
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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