- 61. RE: Lucas Vs. Clear Hooters (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:56:02 EDT
- Seems you're right about Lucas numbers.. I dug up three Lucas 9H style horns to test directly on my car battery and their stamped ID numbers seem to be Lucas 'date system' (week/year) followed by th
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- 62. re: Introducing myself (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:10:46 EDT
- Welcome to the list Drew, Great to see another TR4 owner join the group! Your TR4 looks real good - and the OD tranny is a great and rare item to have, even if it needs an overhaul. If you're looking
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg00159.html (7,483 bytes)
- 63. re: TR4 smoke/steam/vapor from oil filler cap (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:02:46 EDT
- On pre-smogged TR4s, fresh air is supposed to enter through oil cap gauze and exit out lower side of crankcase through the draft tube (tube's end is cut at certain angle and exits near bottom of car
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- 64. re: Hood release -- the magic auto-opener (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 02:56:13 EDT
- "My TR4 hood won't open" is the usual complaint - you're luckier in that regard. I recommend getting your hood latch straightened out and fine tuned. Some folks install backup cables or rod actuated
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- 65. re: Right angle drive for speedo necessary? (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:09:13 EDT
- 1) a couple broken speedo cables is a good reason to look for a cause (dried up speedo mechanism, kinked route of cable, or here's a newer issue, some new cables apparently have too long an inner ca
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg00355.html (8,079 bytes)
- 66. Re: Right angle drive for speedo necessary? (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:15:17 EDT
- Thanks Steven! Major blunder on my part.. You are right: TR4 standard tranny 'speedo drive' is on lower left of a non-OD tranny. And rubber boot on right of transmission cover lines up perfectly with
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg00362.html (7,783 bytes)
- 67. re: TR4A diz vacuum advance (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:31:48 EDT
- the 2-6-3 vacuum unit has the 2-6-3 spring inside - that's the only difference between dozens and dozens of identical looking vacuum units. good used or nos 2-6-3s are very hard to find. you might t
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- 68. re: Re: TR4A diz vacuum advance (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:46:29 EDT
- I'll be darned - there it is - right in the MossUK book - wonder why it's not listed in the MossUS book? - I would try to order the MossUK part through the MossUS office, to save shipping costs if po
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg00729.html (7,215 bytes)
- 69. re: brakes (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:34:32 EDT
- For a street TR4 would you recommend stainless over the OE industrial grade chrome pistons? My first OE set seemed to have lasted 35 years with no sealing area wear (major rust finally ruined them)
- /html/triumphs/2005-08/msg01139.html (6,807 bytes)
- 70. re: RE: Two TR Brake ?'s - Dust & Pressure (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:12:47 EDT
- I'm beginning to think you are missing the the heavy return spring on the pedal arm below the MC platform.. or that there is binding with that pedal and nothing to do with the MC.. Have you tried th
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00003.html (8,276 bytes)
- 71. re: RE: distributor details for a 1966 TR4A (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:08:39 EDT
- << ...not convinced 40795A would be original on your engine (TR4A). My information is that the 4A high compression engine used dist number 40798. >> Wiard and Randall, I believe there is a mistake so
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00366.html (9,072 bytes)
- 72. re: RE: RE: distributor details for a 1966 TR4A (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:35:59 EDT
- The Triumph factory did update the distributor spark curve in the middle of TR4/4A production (to Lucas distributor 40795). The 'cast' engine improvements you mention below, were introduced just bef
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00402.html (7,427 bytes)
- 73. re: Distributor repairs? (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:50:06 EDT
- For distributor vacuum unit rebuilding you might try: www.holden.co.uk for UK area or Buffalo Machine Works P.O. Box 187 18073 Jeffco Hwy 126 Buffalo Creek, CO 80425 303-838-0372 . . . .(fax) 303-83
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- 74. re: distributor specs (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:11:51 EDT
- Sorry to beat this to death ... but I find it hard to believe distributor 40735 DM2 specs (late TR3, early TR4) are the same as 40795 25D (late TR4 and TR4As). Can someone submit 'Advance" and 'Vacuu
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00442.html (7,458 bytes)
- 75. Distributor Pro (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:30:04 EDT
- Hi Listers, This fellow Bob, at lucasdistributors@yahoo.com, restores Lucas distributors, and sent some interesting info (below).. Seems like a good guy to know if you need your TR distributor rebuil
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00480.html (8,737 bytes)
- 76. Re: lucas distributors (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:49:22 EDT
- Here is an interesting response to a query I made.. Carl '63 TR4 since '74 -- Gentlemen, Thanks for the recent (distributor topic) correspondence. I can help with TR advance curve info, it's actuall
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00541.html (6,804 bytes)
- 77. re: TR distributors (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:36:04 EDT
- Hi Randall any luck finding how S-T distributor p.n. 214805 translates into a Lucas distributor number? - I have a suspicion it translates to same as previoius distributor number - Lucas #40795. Carl
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- 78. Looking for Lucas Pub. No. SB222 (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 18:19:31 EDT
- Hi Listers, Still trying to get the last 'official' word on TR dizzies.. Anybody have a copy of the LUCAS PUBLICATION NO. SB222 - Test Data Manual? It's here stated in my 1972 Lucas Workshop Instruct
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00578.html (7,015 bytes)
- 79. Re: Looking for Lucas Pub. No. SB222 (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:21:06 EDT
- thanks TeriAnn, ... hoping somebody out there can dig up Lucas SB222. (this pub. is probably a Service Bulletin sent to Lucas customers like Standard-Triumph, Morris Garage, Healey, Jaguar factories,
- /html/triumphs/2005-07/msg00581.html (7,483 bytes)
- 80. re: Distributor Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: CarlSereda@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 04:19:41 EDT
- Do you have the right numbers stamped on your TR4A distributor parts? Vacuum advance should be stamped 2-6-3 (near neck). Distributor base should be stamped 40795 with date stamp something between '
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00055.html (8,369 bytes)
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