John:
I envy you your back roads tour of Australia. I drove Harry Pyle's TC about
165 km. a couple of years ago in your great outback. This was a very
enjoyable trip.
I am planning another trip to visit Harry and Diedre this coming April,
after a short stay in New Zealand. We are going to their big bi-annual War
Bird show on the South island.
Cheers:
Skip.......http://shadetreemotors.com
At 09:43 PM 12/31/97 +1100, John Swanland wrote:
>It's summer in Australia of course. The last couple of years I have toyed
>with installing an electric fan on the TC for summer.
>
>Finally did it, and made up some easily removed bolt-on brackets with no
>permanent modification to the car. Installed a thermostat as well.
>
>Seems to work well (so far). Decided yesterday, which was hot, to give it
>a real work out with a long run to a country town. I had noticed recently a
>noise that sounded like a generator or water pump bearing on the way out.
>The noise got a lot worse on this trip, so I stopped and took off the fan
>belt to check it out. It wasn't what I thought, and the noise
>(screech/whine) seemed to be coming from the front of the motor.
>
>Decided to pull off the timing cover and have a look. A mistake. I had
>originally installed a Moss lip seal here and it meant I had to mangle it
>to get the cover off. Although I could get a similar seal in this town, I
>had no desire to drop the sump to install it, so I went to a local shop and
>bought some of the old rope seal, which is used for a number of purposes
>other than LBC.
>
>Could see no problems, so I removed the timing chain tensioner and checked
>the oil hole.
>
>Put it back together with a rope seal and no other change, except cleaning
>the tensioner.
>
>
>Result....no noise!! And I'm not sure why. Had a noise free return
>journey today.
>
>John
>Swanland
>Melbourne Australia
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