The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

In terms of the current garage, they have got one stud out, and have broken 2 studs, with about 1/4" left protruding. Otherwise no harm done.

Not a particularly good performance from a garage!

Kyle,
Have you seen Dan Brown's 1850 head and block offered for sale in 'Parts for Sale'?
£50 and he's in Dorset so not too far from you. Just in case you need a replacement...

If there's 1/4 of an inch of stud protruding, I'd be pushing a suitable nut on, and breaking out the welder to puddle weld the nut to the stud.

I'd then blast it, whilst hot with duck oil, or similar.

The flames are spectacular, but get enough on in a rush, and it thermal shocks the stud, and corrosion.

Apply socket, and either stud comes out, or snaps under flush.

If I snaps, then engine out, make a drill guide to fit in the head recess, and drill the thing out

markas wrote:With regard to your ebay find, who owns GGN****? 'Your' engine is shown in front of that car in one photo!
It appears to have changed hand between club members so might be a good find to get you up and running again. You could than sort out your original engine to maintain matching numbers as time and budget allow.
Good that Robsport pointed you towards another garage, they seem to specialise in classic cars so might be useful contacts.

It's me the engine was believed good and came from Ian, I never used it as a complete TR7 engine came up and I used that instead.

If your car is your daily driver I would swap engine and then carry on at leisure. Working slowly you could have the engine swapped in a weekend. The garage where your car is could possibly do it in a day or less as these engines are quite easy to get in and out with a hoist. If the clutch hasn't been replaced recently I'd get that done too at the same time.

I would be quite happy to either deliver by pallet or drive down in my van, as a club member I would also give you a discount on the engine.

All the best

Darren

xvivalve wrote:
Not a particularly good performance from a garage!

You aren't kidding!! Tomorrow morning is crunch point, hopefully not too expensive for their outstanding services. The greatest 'Triumph' of theirs for me is having taken over 2 weeks to get this far - it's not been easy by any means doing the 60 mile round trip to work.

Thank you Markas, yes, I have thanks. The current plan is to remove the engine ourselves, assisted by 'MIG welder' (Tony) on Thursday (assuming I can get my car back before then from the current garage).
Again so much thanks for all the help. I think the easiest thing & cheapest would be to swap the engine out & leisurely work on the other as suggested, however sadly I've no storage for the current engine. I would have to bin it, and its in great condition outside of these latest issues. So I will try to fix it. If that doesn't work, new engine is definitely on the cards.

Many thanks again!