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1. Broken crankshafts (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 16:17:51 +0200
With all the talk about broken crankshafts on the four cylinder TRactor engine , how many people have actually broken one or more ? I admit to breaking one back in 1971 . The engine was completely s
/html/triumphs/2002-05/msg00006.html (7,223 bytes)

2. RE: Broken crankshafts (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 08:47:06 -0700
I haven't broken one personally, but I know several local people that have (one brought the rear main journal to a meeting for 'show and tell'). However, they were consistently exceeding 5k, and for
/html/triumphs/2002-05/msg00008.html (7,126 bytes)

3. Re: Broken crankshafts (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 22:40:51 -0400
Mike and all, My '3's crank broke late one Sunday night just north of Folkston, Georgia. 'hiked back to base and returned for the car three days later. It was still there. That was 1965. Wonder if a
/html/triumphs/2002-05/msg00203.html (7,629 bytes)

4. RE: Broken crankshafts (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 21:50:26 -0700
That's certainly a common place for them to break. However, seems a little harsh to call it a design flaw when most of them are still not broken, 40 years after they were made ! Most of the local ra
/html/triumphs/2002-05/msg00209.html (7,710 bytes)

5. Re: Broken crankshafts (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 04:58:23 -0500
Broken TR cranks are quite common. All TR racers are aware of it and broken cranks and rods are what makes most of us keep our rpm's below 6000, which delays the failure. I have my stock crank magnaf
/html/triumphs/2002-05/msg00216.html (9,209 bytes)

6. FW: Broken crankshafts (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 07:35:46 -0400
Mine went when the #4 piston went, the connecting rod bent in half and my guess is it jammed in between part of the block and the crank, the other 3 cyls hammered it downwards and that was all she wr
/html/triumphs/2002-05/msg00218.html (8,137 bytes)

7. Re: Broken crankshafts (score: 1)
Author: Unknown
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 11:42:29 +0200
Many thanks to all who responded . Bill Piggott has just written an article in TR action stating that the earliest TR2s had tachos that were not red-lined .The 5k limit was red-lined on later cars wh
/html/triumphs/2002-05/msg00611.html (7,011 bytes)


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