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1. [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: "Landis,Ronald" <ron.landis@kentcountymi.gov>; Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:28:21 +0000; List A short time ago someone posted a link for a check list to wake a sleeping car. I think it came from an MG page, but it had a detailed check list of what to do to prepare a car that has not been; /html/triumphs/2013-02/msg00151.html (8,527 bytes)
2. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: davehogye <dlhogye@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:26:54 +0000 (UTC); I recently started a car that had been in storage for at least 12 years. Relatively dry storage in my garage/shop in Santa Cruz, Ca. A 1963 Ford Galaxie 390XL that I bought as my first car in 1979. I; /html/triumphs/2013-02/msg00152.html (9,979 bytes)
3. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: Geo Hahn <ahwahneetr@gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:54:43 -0700; At a minimum I'd take the valve cover off and rotate the engine twice to assure no valves are sticking (old modern fuel sets up like glue). I'd also pour fresh oil over the valves & rockers. Our club; /html/triumphs/2013-02/msg00153.html (9,057 bytes)
4. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: Randall <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:59:05 +0000; When I woke my current "barn find" TR3 from its 33 year nap, I also pulled the rocker cover and shot some oil over the rockers but proceeded to try to start the engine. Since this is a non-interferen; /html/triumphs/2013-02/msg00154.html (9,404 bytes)
5. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: terryrs@comcast.net; Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:18:56 +0000 (UTC); Well, a number of things come to mind. One, of course, is never run the old gas. Even if it starts, it will varnish everything in sight to some degree. While you're at it, stick a magnet in the gas; /html/triumphs/2013-02/msg00156.html (9,839 bytes)
6. [TR] Waking a Sleeping Car (score: 1): Author: William Brewer <wsb1960tr3a@att.net>; Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 15:06:07 -0800 (PST); I woke up a TR3 that had been sitting in a field for 11 years. Raccoons had had kittens in the passengers footwell (the hardtop was still on). Before it arrived at the "ran when parked" spot, it had; /html/triumphs/2013-03/msg00000.html (8,640 bytes)
7. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: Tim Gaines <mtgaines@presby.edu>; Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 10:00:30 -0500 (EST); After finishing the HVDA tranny conversion on my TR6 (loving it so far!) I now have to get back to the Spitfire differential rebuild I started 3 years ago, before retirement. I may not pull that off; /html/triumphs/2013-03/msg00002.html (8,489 bytes)
8. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: <wbeech@flash.net>; Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 09:34:15 -0600; I had a similar problem when I took posession of a long-dormant TR3 last year, BTW, new gas and it fired right up. Didn't want to dump it and the local recycle only take oil. I mixed it some of the o; /html/triumphs/2013-03/msg00003.html (10,082 bytes)
9. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: Dave1massey@cs.com; Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 15:12:03 -0500 (EST); I had about 7 or 8 gallons of old, rusty gas in a TR7 I parted out. I filtered the gas through coffee filter material and added it to the tank of my TR6 about half a gallon at a time just after a fil; /html/triumphs/2013-03/msg00004.html (8,550 bytes)
10. Re: [TR] Waking a sleeping car (score: 1): Author: Tim Gaines <mtgaines@presby.edu>; Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 23:43:06 -0500 (EST); I should have thought of the lawnmower for burning old gas. I actually did that, on a much smaller scale, with a gallon can of gas that had been in my dad's trunk for a few years. I guess over the co; /html/triumphs/2013-03/msg00023.html (9,871 bytes)

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