Mine has TR with the 3 written under it on the manifold side of the block,
in a kind of reddish paint. It almost looks as though someone wrote it with
their finger, the paint being heavier along the edges of the stroke. Mine is
TS 25054 and the engine # is TS25441E. That's original according to the
build certificate. I didn't repaint the block since it didn't look that bad
and because I presumed the marking was slapped on by some bloke at the
engine assembly plant. Thought it was kind of quaint or something. Jon Mac,
you know any body with a fat reddish kind of looking finger over there?
Rob in Seattle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Brackin" <dbrackin@charter.net>
To: "suhring" <suhring@lancnews.infi.net>; "Drew Rogge" <drew@pixar.com>
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 7:16 AM
Subject: RE: The long road back
>
> Hi Drew,
> My '57 TR3 engine has the same hand painted markings on the left side of
the
> block. Red paint was used on this one.
> Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of suhring
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 9:47 PM
> To: Drew Rogge
> Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: The long road back
>
>
>
> Drew:
>
> I have my '59 TR3A engine on a stand awaiting my attention while
> I am working on the frame. My engine has the original TR3 painted
> on the right side. I have taken a number of pictures to get a good
> record of the paint brush strokes and the color and plan on painting
> it back on after I paint the block.
>
> Scott Suhring
> Elizabethtown, PA
> '70 TR6
> '59 TR3
>
> Drew Rogge wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > A while ago I was headed for the hardware store in my TR3 and the
> > engine started missing and finaly quit all together. To make a long
> > story short, what happened was that the pivot pin came out of the
> > aftermarket fuel pump and allowed the lever to jam the cam. After
> > taking the valve cover off I found that the rear stud for the rocker
> > arm assembly had broken. This is probably what caused the car to
> > quit running. The only thing I could think of that would cause this
> > was that the cam had been broken (always assume the worst) causing
> > the valve timing for the #4 cylinder to go out and allowing the piston
> > to bash into the valves. So I proceeded to pull the head to check the
> > piston and valve. Although the valve and piston looked ok there was
> > a pretty heavy ridge at the top of all the cylinders. I knew the engine
> > had lots of blow-by and pretty tired. This plus knowing something
happened
> > to the cam caused me to decide to pull the engine and rebuild it.
> > Once I got around to pulling the cam out I was supprised and pleased
> > that it came out in one piece. I guess that what really happened when
> > the cam was jammed was that it caused the timing chain to skip one
> > or more teeth.
> >
> > So anyway the engine is all a part and kind of spread around the garage
> > now and I'm afraid I'm going to be asking all sorts of silly questions
> > for a while. I guess I might as well start now.
> >
> > When I pulled the cylinders out the water jacket had all kinds of rust
> > in it, particularly towards the rear of the block. I'm going to take
> > the block and head somewhere to get them cleaned out and was wondering
> > if this will remove the rust build up? I'm also concerned about the
> > aluminum plugs in the head and oil gallery. Does the cleaning solution
> > used to clean things up eat aluminum?
> >
> > I'm not sure but it looks like there may be a crack in the web that runs
> > across the block between the number two and three cylinders. It looks to
> > start at the top of the web and runs to the rectangular hole. Is this
> > common and is it significant? I'm not sure that it's really a crack. It
> > may be the imprint of a crack in the pattern used to make the mold for
> > the block (wishfull thinking).
> >
> > One interesting thing I noticed when cleaning up the block is that it
> > has the letters:
> >
> > T R
> > 3
> >
> > painted on the side in orange paint. I had read in Piggot's book that
> > at least some of the engines were marked this way. Anyone else have this
> > on their engine?
> >
> > Like I said this is probably the start of many questions. I've tried
> > to save previous messages which I figured I'd need some day but I'm
> > sure I don't have everything covered.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Drew
> >
> > --
> > Drew Rogge
> > drew@pixar.com
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