The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

Lord Tolly wrote:replace all nuts and bolts with stainless

High tensile bolts are used for a reason and stainless steel bolts are not high tensile.

sprint95m wrote:

Lord Tolly wrote:replace all nuts and bolts with stainless

High tensile bolts are used for a reason and stainless steel bolts are not high tensile.

Oooh I was not aware of that

to be honest all the main bolts ie bellhousing are in good condition so I may just re use them.

cheers for the heads up....now reordering the correct items

have been busy degreasing the engine today, so far everything seems ok to me cant understand what happeded though must of been the starter destroying itself so it has now been reconditioned.

sump has now been painted and replaced not after fitting a new set of big end bearings first.

just now got to paint it up, replace the clutch and repaint the engine bay.

which reminds me....how do you remove the bearing from the carrier???

It just taps off....you pull the fork off the ball and the carrier come off the main shaft tubular bearing, then the encased ball bearing drifts off the tube.

Jonners

I do hope you have your car undercover tonight Glenn? What with this old satellite thing falling to Earth .....you know what with your luck and all....

knowing my luck it probably will fall on top of my garage instead

Well good news!!!!

The salalite didn't fall on the little white tolly but due to a bad batch of red paint one side of my engine did turn pink!!!

I'd prefer a pink engine to a satellite-shaped hole in my roof!

Mind you; if someone knew where it would land and could find a large enough net, I'm sure there'd be some useful parts in one of those satellite jobbies.

Well today way going great....

another coat of paint applied to the engine and engine bay,
removed all the semi rusted through core plugs on the engine.
then started to fit the new ones,only to discover I was one short.


Unlucky Alf strikes again!!!


on a plus though i finally managed yesterday to pop into town to collect a mysterious parcel that arrived last week.
on opening it discovered the correct clutch release fork for the car
cheers Craig(beerfertoo)

Had some days off this week.
Engine is Just about ready to go now managed to find relpacement core plug in one of my friends stashes of odds and sods he has collected over the years

just got the carbs to replace on the replacement polished manifold I picked up from the Triumph spares day.
also I managed to win on fleabay a pair of new old stock Leyland carb mounts now fitted on the car.

will post some pics hopefully tomorrow when I find my usb camera lead

I can finally see the end of the tunnel with this saga (once I get this damm Welseal off my fingers)

As Promised some pics ofwhat Me and Lady Tolly have been upto


Firstly removal of the grubby engine from its home

At this point it was belived siezed



Grubby is it.




Then the real fun started, after removal we discovered the engine still turned over fine!!
so it was decided to clean down the engine and refit it.

the engine has been fully degreased new gaskets top and bottom fitted new waterpump, spin on oil filter conversion lumenition,oil pump, core plugs the list is never ending lol

then on with the repaint untill we ended up with this ......







Just a couple of little jobs to do now and it will be ready to pop back in and hopefully run

Want to sell the alloys under your engine?

richard4040 wrote:Want to sell the alloys under your engine?

No good for a dolly unfortunatly they are 12" from either a imp or a viva

plus a couple of the rims have chunk out of em

I swear I asked exactly the same thing when I came to get that gearbox.
Glad to see you're making progress!

Indeed you did Oli.

They are an Original set of 1970's Cosmic Alloys
must get round to getting rid of sometime.

Came in the boot of a Viva HA I once broke.