HighLUX Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Im looking at buying a 71 mk2 triump 2000 are there anythings that I should be checking for when I check it out? do they have any notorious spots for rust? and what stud pattern are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanebrain Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 English rust (should be worse than anything you will find here) http://retrorides.proboards86.com/v45in ... read=36486 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 English rust (should be worse than anything you will find here) Oh please - those Trumpys are some of the most rust resistant cars of the early '70s. There's heaps more of them left on the roads than any of the Jap (or indeed other Pommie stuff) stuff of the time. The rusty one you posted was from the salted roads in the UK where you don't even see '80s Jap cars because they're rusted away. Having said that, indeed check it for rust, and there's another site somewhere on the web that does list there common rust points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 From all the ones I've been involved with recently... That lip that runs under the tail lights rusts Under front screen Inner front guards And doors can suffer if it's been sitting, but other than that they seem resilient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 And the rear suspension (alloy) trailing arm things break and Snoozin has made 4500 posts and I am amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUL8R Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Motors are based from the Massey Fergusons.... Rust - Bootlid on brothers one -by the chrome strip, pretty solid cars , easy to get parts.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Oh, they're 4x114.3 (4x4.5") PCD too!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighLUX Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 excellent info! cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 Bought it yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighLUX Posted April 15, 2008 Author Share Posted April 15, 2008 nah not yet, been too busy to go have a look hopefully he still has it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Also, rear trailing arm bushes get pwnt, you'll notice this if the back end has an unnerving 'twitch' when cornering, if it feels solid it'l likey be sweet. And the rear universals apparently flog themselves out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Motors are based from the Massey Fergusons.... No they're not. The only Massey Fergusson that used a Triumph engine used the engine that was in the TR2/TR3/TR3a/TR4/TR4a 4 cylinder. The Triumph 2000 sedans all had inline sixes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUL8R Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Yea, the 2000/2500 motors are the same motors as used in the Standard Vanguard , which if you go back and check what that motor is from .... oh wait yes a Massey Ferguson! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 ^ Self righteous wrongness ftw. The Ferguson/Vanguards rolled with 2l 4cyl motors dude, which then found their way into TR series Trumps... and then some of the 'performance' mods to the Triumph versions were adopted for the sporty (lol) variants of the Vanguards. The six was possibly a development on that, but I don't see how much of a similarity it may have held, being a 6pot 2l vs a 4pot 2l. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 The six was possibly a development on that, but I don't see how much of a similarity it may have held, being a 6pot 2l vs a 4pot 2l. Your assumption is right. The Triumph 2L Six was an all-new engine, so designed because it was believed that four cylinder engines weren't refined enough for the market Triumph was trying to target with its larger Saloons and sports cars after the late sixties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I discovered they suck at cold starting this morning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 I discovered they suck at cold starting this morning! Bit of TLC should sort that.... new points/plugs and perhaps a bit of tweaking of the SU's (Or Zenith-Strombergs?) should see it behave a little nicer for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snoozin Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Yeah she could do with plugs, I checked the points and adjusted them when I got it... and she runs mighty Strommy's! When it runs it's soooo smoooooov. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 When it runs it's soooo smoooooov. Get a good one, or restore one to top condition and they ride as well as any modern luxury sedan.... rich and creamy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CXGPWR Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hard cold starting in the morning? Something has got to be wrong, mine sits for months on end, and when i do go to start it, usually a really cold morning, it starts first pop. lol Such luxuary the good ol trump! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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