I hate Triumph's effin' mechanical design engineers...

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The Artist formerly known as Turbo84
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with every fiber of my being. Apparently the concept that some poor SOB in the future is going to have to fix their shit never occurs to some of those rat bastards.

(That's all. Heading back to the garage now.)
 
big2bird said:
Twin_Turbo said:
Spitfire??? I hate all british car, junk...the whole lot
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I miss my old Healey, and still want an XKE. Junk? Maybe.:wink: But beautifull junk.:D
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The E Jag is the only car to ever rival the Shark in styling....

had a friend who was son of the editor of The Christian Science Monitor.....
Sperling was the last name....he had one, aluminum body...

trick is, today put in a LS engine, and lop 5000 lbs off the nose....

:lol::harhar::D
 
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mrvette said:
big2bird said:
Twin_Turbo said:
Spitfire??? I hate all british car, junk...the whole lot
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I miss my old Healey, and still want an XKE. Junk? Maybe.:wink: But beautifull junk.:D
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The E Jag is the only car to ever rival the Shark in styling....

had a friend who was son of the editor of The Christian Science Monitor.....
Sperling was the last name....he had one, aluminum body...

trick is, today put in a LS engine, and lop 5000 lbs off the nose....

:lol::harhar::D
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Better change to steel wheels, or have spokes all over the road.
 
better not drive an e type at all, all the hooplah surrounding it is BS, even the advertised top speeds back then were lies, typical british bluff. It's a POS
 
Twin_Turbo said:
better not drive an e type at all, all the hooplah surrounding it is BS, even the advertised top speeds back then were lies, typical british bluff. It's a POS
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YEH, but kinda like a whore.....they put on a show for a used piece of merchandise.....

:lol::harhar:
 
Twin_Turbo said:
Spitfire??? I hate all british car, junk...the whole lot
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Nah, motorcycle. In the time it's taken me to just replace a leaky fuel line, I could have pulled the engine out of the Corvette and reinstalled it, and with fewer parts to disassemble in the process. And in that process of disassembling half the bike to just get the airfilter housing out to get to the carbs it's apparent to me that Triumph bought the cheapest fasteners from eight different suppliers, as every time I got one step done I had to switch from a flatblade screwdriver to a Philips screwdriver to a hex/Allenhead wrench to a Torx wrench, all in differing sizes as I went along. Pick a fucking tool type (Torx, etc) and stick with it, huh!

I pulled this bike apart 5 years ago and left it in the corner of the barn because I was so effing pissed off at the sheer bullshit involved with getting to the carbs. It's taken five years for me to calm down enough to get back to working on this bike. And then after spending the last two days working on it I almost pushed it to the back yard this afternoon to set it on fire.

Hopefully I can make some more progress tomorrow and maybe try to start it up sometime this week. And, I suppose I'll see what additional demons have possessed it since it last ran.
 
I have fond memories of 3 MG-B's - one running, 2 parts cars. Fond because they're gone.
I have fonder memories of my XKE convertible stolen in Brooklyn, NY.
If that had not happened, I probably would have not been able to afford my $1200 split window a few month's later.
Serendepity.
 
Had a 69 tr6 (car). All in all not a bad car. Of course, I sold it at about 40k miles before it started to go bad. They had a habit of tearing the irs out of the unibody. Big gapping holes where everything bolted in.
Sold it to a bank vp for his 16 yr old kid. A real ah. Got real mad when I told him that I would have to wait till his personel check went through before he could have the car. But, But, I'm the bank VP!!!
So about a week after he took the car, I get a call that the clutch is bad, and that I should pay to have it fixed. I don't remember the cost, but it was probablly 3-4 times the price of a Chevy. There wern't too many dealers back then. I sure he was really pissed off when I hung up on him.
How long did he expect a clutch to last with a 16 yr old kid?
 
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The cars can be a bit different but it too bad and mine were reliable. My neighbor has a 69 e type and it's fantastic and reliable.

I have a 2000 triumph trophy 1200 sport tourer. Had to replace the valve seals on one cylinder so decided to pull the head and check everything. My has all the plastics so it all had to come off. Yes it was a real pain but finally got it done.

Of course the bike was worked slowly so when I got it back together the jets were clogged. It's a tough job getting them out but was able to strip the bowls with all cables still connected. Pulled them off as one assembly.
 
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And yet, an old friend on my email list, Dick Nye, son of a former senator from out west, I want to say Wyoming....he get back from the 20 years in the Air Force, and buys a British sports car, I forget the badge name...MG, TR, AH , I want to say TR on it, but anyway, he rebuilds the engine, to find the body all rusted out, so he goes into some friend's racing garage, cuts the thing apart so the only thing holding the front and rear together is the tranny tunnel/hump the floorboards, door sills, all of it toast...buys a MIG welder, welds it up with British replacement metal parts, Primes and paints it, sells the MIG welder, packs it up with all of everthing that would fit in it, from clothes to tools....and


DRIVES it from Wash DC to the Arctic Circle at some National Park sign, takes a pix near Prudhoe Bay.....turns around and drives back.....not one breakdown on the trip....so go figger.....


:clap: today, some 25? years later he still has the car, it's his DD....


:nuts::bump:
 
I may just be the odd duck (not too unusual), but I have never found the XKE to be nearly the beauty others see. The convertible is not too offensive but the coupes are just godawful. I mean it's not as ugly as the Avanti, but I do not see the sexy in it. :tomato:
 
clutchdust said:
I may just be the odd duck (not too unusual), but I have never found the XKE to be nearly the beauty others see. The convertible is not too offensive but the coupes are just godawful. I mean it's not as ugly as the Avanti, but I do not see the sexy in it. :tomato:
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You're not the only one thinking that.
 
Got the carbs and airbox back on, and was emptying the remnants of fuel that was in the tank, and it was a rusty looking mess in there. Anybody have some suggestions on how to wash out/flush out all that crap? I don't remember there being a decent fuel filter on that thing, but I'm going to plumb one in to catch the big stuff. And as Dave was mentioning, I hope the carb internals aren't all gummed up or rusted. I think I'll try to fire the bike up with a remote fuel can to eliminate one variable (rusty tank) in case it doesn't want to start.
 
Fuel crap? Slosh/soak some carb dip awhile.

Rust crap? Metal stripping is best. Soaking in vinegar can work

If you clean it up and it's rusty, they have gas tank sealer like is used in aircraft.
 
Which bike is it you're working on? Bikes like my Trophy have inline filters in the fuel lines just prior to the T connections at the carbs.

Some models are hard to work on due to the air filter housing. I cut the non engine side of the housing in half so it comes out easy.
 
daveL82 said:
Which bike is it you're working on? Bikes like my Trophy have inline filters in the fuel lines just prior to the T connections at the carbs. It's a '96 Sprint (w/900 3 cylinder). I took the bike apart in 2007, and I honestly don't remember any filters (although I admit I could be mistaken).
Some models are hard to work on due to the air filter housing. I cut the non engine side of the housing in half so it comes out easy.
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The filter housing was the major PITA item on this bike. I had to cut the airbox on the same (non-engine) side to get it out. Very poor design on that box. It could have been designed slightly differently and made life much easier for customers and the dealer techs, but somebody (or actually several people) at Triumph had their head up their ass during the design phase.
 
The filters are the same size as the fuel line so hard to see. The line slides over one end of them. Thought about going with open element filters but would have to rejet.

Sorted the suspension and hayabusa calipers on the front

The 900 is a great motor and the sprint makes a nice sport tourer.
 
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