Re: [TR] Rebuilding TR3A engine

["TeriAnn J. Wakeman" <tjwakeman@gmail.com>]

On 4/28/12 4:13 PM, David Ljung Madison wrote:
> TeriAnn writes:
> > I highly recommend Greg Solow's Engine Room in Santa Cruz.
> >
> > They rebuilt my TR3's engine for me years ago,..
> I read about that on your "restoration horror story" :)
> I'll have to give them a call, didn't realize that all happened
> near the Bay Area.
I was living in Aptos on the Monterey bay area.  The body shop that did 
such a lousy job is in Santa Clara near the airport. The drive train 
work was farmed out to The Engine Room in Santa Cruz.  I was not about 
to rebuild an engine outside in the dirt.
I have since moved to Flagstaff, home of the 2012 Triumphest next 
September.  I have no excuse to miss this one.
> > ..did a rack and pinion conversion for me
> Interesting - that's high on my list as well, I was thinking about doing
> it myself, but time is in limited supply right now.  How long did the
> rebuild take and how long did the R&P take?
Check with the Engine Room to get an idea of how long the engine rebuild 
will take.  A lot depends upon what you have done. For instance it took 
a while to have my crank nitrided and the engine has a lot of 
interesting things in it and done to it.  I'm sure a straight stock 
rebuild would go a lot quicker.
Also the R&P was their first conversion.  If you use the Moss conversion 
like I did it would likely go quicker the second time around.  But I had 
other work done at the same time so it took longer.  new valves, new cam 
& lifters because the new oil formulation didn't protect it (I now focus 
on high ZDDP oils), new timing chain, gears and front housing as well.
If you leave the car with them they could do the rack & pinion 
conversion the same time they do the engine & not take any extra time.
Take care,

TeriAnn

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