The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

When I rebuild a Sprint engine I add two more bolts to the cam (if requested) for this I have a drill jig because due to the existing notch on the cam there is no room for error. I once dismantled an engine that someone had used stainless bolts and were lucky that they had not sheared as stainless ...

When I had a TR4 I had a severe brake judder (this was in 1979 by the way) and I stuck some emery cloth using Araldite to the braking face of some old worn out pads. I then drove the car very gently and applied the brakes gently too. This trued up the disc nicely and ensured they were parallel. I ...

Suggest you leave it well alone as I believe this is the plugged hole for the oilway that is fed by the jackshaft and transfers oil to the head.

Triumph TR4's have them under the axle too.
If you exit at the sill its fine for a track only car but leaves, dirt and garbage at the side of the road cause problems for a road car that the gases blow about, which is why my Lotus 7 replica took me several hours to get the exhaust out at the back ...

Welcome Frosty, been to Norfolk but I live in Hampshire so you are a way from me. Good people on here you will find.

Friend just arrived from China and sang Sinatra songs constantly, I asked his wife what was wrong with him and she told me he had crooner virus.

A few of you will have heard of my "rules" for successful spannering, for those who haven't, or haven't heard them all, here they are!

1) Never trust someone else's diagnosis!



Steve


I built an engine for a chap who then sold it to someone and some time later the new owner of said engine ...

I had a double anti roll bar fitted to an Escort Mexico that I owned in the seventies and tried to copy the idea on the Sprint but gave up and made a thicker standard type one from a Sierra bar (what else). At castle Combe it made no difference to lap times but did not crash potholes so much. What ...

This is a familiar tale :lol:
When I obtained my Sprint all those years ago It wallowed and swerved about the road more like a boat than a car. Gradually I went through it bit by bit changing this and replacing that until it started to go where I pointed it and stop like a proper car.
The strangest ...

I wonder if a simple spinner that clamps round the shaft might throw the oil before it breaks through.
I never solved the issue on my Sprint and used to soak the brake shoes in brake cleaner and set fire to them and refit :shock: Every MOT I would insert a new set of shoes.
With my brake mod I never ...

Last weekend we were in our Mondeo towing a trailer loaded with a sprint lump for rebuilding when this Sprint overtook us near Beaconsfield sure looked nice and I smiled because I had just been with several Dolomite owners.

I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind,
I can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
I have bouts with dementia ...

I have rebuilt quite a few sprint engines now and I often find that the original Renold tensioner is in very good condition and just because it has light grooving does not mean its useless.
I would not be in a hurry to replace perfectly useable parts. Chain guides and tensioners with grooves cause ...

Being 15 at the time i was tucked up in bed after a hard day as an apprentice in a garage. Leaving school at 15 and thrown into work was a big shock to the system :lol: God knows what the the poor little snowflakes of today would have done :wink: They would probably be still in their flea pits ...

I was a similar age to you and remember going to a friends house and sat with them for a little while as they all watched. However it did not really get to me as much as it did to others and just like modern youngsters I carried on regardless!