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1. [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: bean@warbaby.com; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:10:24 -0800; I rebuilt my motor this past spring. I put about 7000 hard miles on it this summer (four months of touring the southwest) with no real problems. About two weeks ago I started hearing a "tappet" noise; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00799.html (8,985 bytes)
2. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:30:36 -0800; I'd check out the valve springs in that area. Rig some sort of prybar so you can depress each valve in turn ... if one is noticeably easier than the others then it has a dead or broken spring. Not t; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00800.html (8,466 bytes)
3. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: bean@warbaby.com; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:15:58 -0800; Thanks Randall. You are one of the great resources in the world of Triumph. Wish I had been smart enough to do this while I had the rocker rack off before. In any case I have checked the springs per; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00801.html (8,069 bytes)
4. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@razzolink.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:27:41 -0800; I once had a push rod with a cracked cup. Looked normal except for a hairline crack. When the push rod was pushed up against the rocker arm ball, the cup would open up widening the effective tappet a; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00802.html (7,892 bytes)
5. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:33:47 -0800; Sorry, my only other idea is to go looking for that missing screw. Maybe it's laying inside a lifter, where it makes a noise when the lifter rises, or something. TeriAnn has already mentioned a bad; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00804.html (8,321 bytes)
6. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: TR250Driver@aol.com; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:12:13 EST; I can only offer morale support. If you are talking about the screw at the Rear of the Rocker Arm, I had the same thing happen to the TR3B years ago. I was lucky enough to find the screw although I; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00809.html (7,590 bytes)
7. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Chris Simonsen" <ccsimonsen@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:41:38 -0500; Lost the nut and the screw in the TR2. Made one heck of a clatter. Found them both laying on the head when I pulled the cover. Sure that screw is not flapping around in side your cylinder? == This l; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00814.html (7,470 bytes)
8. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: bean@warbaby.com; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:08:08 -0800; Thanks for all the input folks. This list is great! Tony- I've pulled the rack and push rods and felt around for the screw, doesn't mean it isn't there, just couldn't find it. Teriann- I'm so glad yo; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00818.html (8,191 bytes)
9. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:17:14 -0800; Switching to a magnetic drain plug might help you find it. I found part of a timing chain roller on my Stag that way, that had apparently been roaming around in the pan for several years (long enoug; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00819.html (8,429 bytes)
10. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Terry R Smith" <terryrs@adelphia.net>; Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:33:48 -0500; What are you setting the valve clearances at? I ask because I had a similar problem, only to find that the book I used showed two different gap measures, and I was u sing the wrong one. (I've alread; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00821.html (8,093 bytes)
11. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Marc Nederkoorn" <adsl709847@tiscali.nl>; Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:45:53 +0100; Hello Barry, No-one mentioned the fact that on a 6-cylinder Triumph engine, if the head is skimmed (likely on a rebuild) and nothing changed to the rocker set-up, a rocker set screw can just touch th; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00841.html (8,386 bytes)
12. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:59:31 -0800; Marc, I can see how skimming the head would move the adjustment screws closer to the rocker cover (although I'm amazed to learn that the screw/cover clearance is that tight on a 6-cyl Triumph). But; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00842.html (9,391 bytes)
13. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: TR250Driver@aol.com; Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:57:01 EST; I really believe in those magnetic plugs ever since I once changed the oil in the 70 Spitfire MK3 and pulled out a thrust washer. What a Bummer! It was the nite before a Race Day at Nelson's Ledges T; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00843.html (8,169 bytes)
14. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:26:58 -0800; Yeah, me too. I also like the hex-socket plugs, available in both magnetic and non-magnetic (for fill plugs) from McMaster-Carr. I'm slowly converting all my Triumphs to them. Randall CONFIDENTIALIT; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00844.html (8,619 bytes)
15. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Dave Connitt" <dconnitt@fuse.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:32:03 -0500; Hi Randall, I like the magnetic hex-socket plug idea! Do you by any chance remember what the thread was on the drain plug? I would like to pick up one for my TR4A. Thanks, Dave Connitt == This list s; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00852.html (7,480 bytes)
16. Re: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: bean@warbaby.com; Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:28:44 -0800; The tappet problem is solved. I went down the list of suggestions yesterday. Well the results are in. TeriAnn- Your suggestion to check the pushrods was brilliant. Pulled the pushrods and discovered; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00865.html (9,671 bytes)
17. RE: [TR] Help! Tappet noise (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:08:37 -0800; I'm reasonably certain it's 3/8" NPT. For example, MMC P/N 1072A22 http://www.mcmaster.com/nav/enter.asp?partnum=1072A22 That would apply to both gearbox and engine sump, for later TR3 through the e; /html/triumphs/2007-01/msg00869.html (9,039 bytes)

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