BLIZZO

Right so I got this bad boy going then all of a sudden it started coughing and farting and then pissing fuel out everywhere from the metering unit. After some research I figured out it would be the rubber fuel diaphram as these perish so I ripped the metering unit to bits and sure enough what should be soft rubber was broken brittle old plastic! So $110 later I have a new viton replacement fuel diaphragm So I put the new diaphram in and then more fuel started pissing out of the metering unit pedestal argghhj! The little drive gear that goes to the metering unit from the dissy drive has two oil type seals, one to keep engine oil from getting into the metering unit and one to keep fuel getting into the crankcase. Between the two is a little tell tale hole so you know if one seal is fucked, anyway fuel was coming out of here so a new oil seal and viton fuel seal and she's as good as gold. All back in now and I think timed up right, timing these things is a bitch. Everything is timed using the hole in the rotor on number 6 injector while no 1 cylinder is at TDC compression stroke. The nigger in the woodpile is that the drive gear is helical so as you mesh it it turns, so timing has to be 1 tooth out in the right way so when it meshes it's right. Will find out tonight if it works or not anyway!

have since found out no its not continous, only what seeps past the drive rotor goes back into the tank, which is usually quite a small amount, the prv bleed off in continous, old school lucas dudes and manuals for the win. Also, any triumph foamers have any high pressure side power steer hoses around, my bloke at pirtek cant get the bend right damn it and im out of time to get one from the uk

bummmmm weeeeeees!! went to start trumpy today and lunch and fuel is PISSSSSING out of the bottom of the metering unit by the black cover, im guessing its the diaphram seal that didnt like sitting dry for 15 years. Gutted as, will try get unit out on the weekend and see what the bizzo is. Does anyone know if the return line on the metering unit should be expelling fuel constantly when the pump is running?

dont get another one richie, just sell me your sweet plates and spare injection stuff for the inevitable breakdowns.

sooooo, PI motor is now running, not awesomely but its running. Have just set the timing at idle to dead TDC as manual states, it wants to run nicer at about 8BTDC but ill roll as the manual says and see how it feels on the road. There is no pinking but i am getting some nasty backfires on the overrun. This tells me its a bit lean but when i pull an injector its spraying hard. Also have to spend a good amount of time balancing each of the throttle bodies, to do this easily i need an oldschool air flow meter to hold over them but they dont seem to exist now, only in lucas manuals! Anyway video for video sake, excuse my little scardey cat moment when it backfires haha. Just waiting for a power steer hose then i can take it for a bit of a road test and try tune it properly. ***pleas excuse the shitty angles at which i was holding my phone***

Is the trumpy a pi? Just guessing as it has pi hun caps. You still running injection? Nice work, keen to see how it comes out

get one and bring it out to BOS gravel sprints at kakariki !!!

what ya doing with the 4k?

These are manual choke not electric choke. Like said above change the throttle adjustment on the carb so it's a bit longer to drop the revs. Other than that these pile or shit motors / carbs are shocking for wearing out where the butterfly shaft goes through the carb housing causing them to suck in air, mine did this and I ended up chucking a carb off a swift on it which was there for about 5 mins until I put a vitara 1600 efi in it. But yea, adjust throttle cable

I only run gl4 designation stuff in my triumph as I have read that several places say gl5 and 6 is real bad for the bronze synchros

just forget about it and sell it too me! I know of a rotten 1600 sport that is begging for a new shell

Dredging this thread out of 2012 and into 2014, are mechanical gauges actually that bad? ive just got my hands on a genuine smiths oil pressure gauge for my triumph, i dont want any gay modern shit in it and the smiths gauge is dope as. Would ripco or supershit have the british thread fittings for these as it didnt come with lines, are the nylon lines better than the copper or stainless braid etc as i have seen a few different ones. I also got a smiths GP series vacuum gauge (and spare oil pressure), whats the best way to hook up vacuum? i wanted it as the lucas mechanical injection runs on vacuum so shes pretty important but, though of hooking up to inlet vac line somehwere. Help me Jim!

Engine in today! Went pretty smoothly considering hangover, still heaps to do with regards to piping etc but hopefuy I'll have a productive day tomorrow and some more updates, I'm loving the ITB's, motherfuckers are just gagging for trumpets!

wicked stuff, so many feels. The man sure likes bicycles too by the looks of things!

any lads or ladess's got any oil coolers laying around ya wanna part with, my mocal spin on oil filter adapter has the outlet and inlet to run a cooler, and came with -10 oil cooler lines and an oil thermostat so i needa get a cooler, cant affrod to drop like $200 on a fancy mocal one right now, anyone got anything lying around?

That's what I first thought Dave but would the exhaust manifold not have more inconsistent Heat?

Lads! My new inlet/exhaust gasket turned up and I went to put it on but unsure which way around to put it, it has a tin side on one and paper on the other, checking both original motors one was around one way and the other was the opposite which was rebuilt by a mechanic. Confused, please help!

yea this is it!! well simon never really had it, it was his grandfathers, who was the manager of Newton King in wanganui which was the old triumph dealership. After his grandad died it sat idle for ages then Andrew Cobb brought it and thrashed it for a few months then i brought it in like 05/06 i think. Since i restored it its rolled two of Simons families weddings, his and his cousins, the family cream their jeans over it, every now and then at christmas i have taken it down to his folks place and let various family members hoon in it, they love it, a lot of them learnt to drive in it.

forgot to add a discussion link at the start, cant figure out how to put it up there now, anyways, Discuss..... //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39266-blakes-77-triumph-2000/?hl=blakes

in somewhat of a vain attempt to keep the oil in the sump and not of the floor I put a new rear main seal in, easy to do while shes in bits Before we pulled the donk out i tried to do a skid and it would just stall, haha shit not even one damn wheel! sparkle decided to make up for it with betty, SKIDS FOR KIDS! The reason the old engine had no clutch was that it had super excessive endfloat, like over 20 thou when service level is 4 to 8 thou, so the clutch just moves the whole crank. WHole the new PI motor had the sump off i checked the endflloat in it and it had 12 thou so ill bang some new thrust washers in while its apart. I scored myself a MOCAL spin on oil filter adapeter with oil hoses and a fancy oil thermostat so that has gone on and you will see another little stainless hose going from the pressure sensor up the the block. This is an aftermarket rocker feed hose to make sure the last two cylinders dont run dry when hauling ass as the usually do (engine is on a but of a tilt).

rightyo, Joe has been hassling me about that of thread updates so i thought id jam something up as i have been getting stuck into the trumpy in the last week. 2000 had officially pissed me off enough so it was time to come out, wanted to give gearbox a birthday at same time so the whole lot was coming out. Had a few of the boys around on saturday (cheers sparkle and prince william duke of cambridge) for some shit yarns, beers, faggot juice and spannering. As those of you in the know trumpy engines come out the bottom, not the top. So steering rack, cross member and engine member were removed, engine dropped onto a crate and then the car lifted up and engine slid out of the way. Didnt take many photos, too busy with beers. Anyway this was the end result Looks like a damn BMC assemply plant As i had converted the 2000 to power steer and i am putting a non power steer engine it requires a bit of shaggin around. BMCs engineers in all there fine wisdom obviously had a few too many pints at the local and built the power steering mount into the front block plate and only put it on power steer cars. Sooooo... i had to rip off the timing cover, all the timing gears etc and swap over the block plate. This also required a lot of shitty gasket scraping.

As rookie said go hit up a local forestry contractor (hauler not groundbased), try nig bryant or the bloke something fraser from fraser logging. When their working ropes get a bit worn they replace them and the old ropes cant even be scrapped usually as the guillotines wont cut them and compactors cant scrunch them into balls.

Oh cool that could be real handy, yea I have a bit of plan for heatsink. Don't like the idea of coil as heating the fuel will inherently heat the pump mech and maybe get cavitation. I might get that oil cooler spin on, is that what you run? No trouble using for a 2500 rather than a tr, same engine I know just wondering about chassis clearances etc

No two fuel pump Dave, I'm living life on the edge and using the lucas pump, gunna whip up a cooling coil or heatsink for it and put a viton seal in it. Saves the headaches.........maybe not cos lucas. Saw that Muncie, just don't wanna pay 150 green backs haha