Marty,
Sounds like a great idea to me -- especially about extending it to
include MGs. I had my original TR250 lifters reground, hardened and
rockwell tested, but the engine is not together yet. I will let you know
what happens.
Don Malling
MJSUKEY@cs.com wrote:
> On the subject of lifters. IMHO this is a huge problem from the amount of
> airspace it has gotten in the last couple of years. On the hardness issue, I
> still cannot agree that it is strictly hardness that is causing the trouble.
> Minimum of 55 Rc? Nope, Lifter that I just pulled out of my block last week
>that
> was trashed from only running 30-50 actual hours over a handful of autox's
> last summer checked 55.5 Rc on the face. From the set I pulled last year
>that
> some went bad there were some that measured softer that still looked like new
> while the ones that checked harder were pitted. There are a lot of people
> selling lifters out there that are possibly better but has anybody actually
>used
> them and had success? I have tried sets from two different suppliers in the
>last
> two years and both went bad in a short period of time. I would like to do a
> survey from all you triumph owners out there. If you have ever replaced a cam
> and/or lifters in your Triumph or have friends that have, heck ask at your
>car
> club if you belong to one, would please send me an email at mjsukey@cs.com
> and tell me were you purchased them and if they held up or not and maybe how
> many miles you have on them. I will then put something together and maybe
>from
> all the experience we have as a group we can find one that works. I will not
> turn this into a vendor bashing but if we can see that 30 people purchased
>them
> from vendor "A" and they went bad and 20 people purchased them from vendor
> "B" and they held up I can at least put something on the list that says that
> based on the feedback from 50 people it looks like we stand our best chance
>from
> vendor "B". Now that I am thinking about it I have friends with MG's that
> have had the same trouble so maybe we should open the survey up to all
>British
> cars. As a side note, I have started to do some research on some specialty
> coatings used on steels that might have some merit. Thanks for reading my
>long
> rambling.
>
> Thanks,
> Marty Sukey
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