Re: TR6 Engine Overhaul/cam journals

[Tom Tweed <ak627@dayton.wright.edu>]

Hello Paul, you responded to Tony with :

 >Tony: you wrote " Cam journal diameter should be 1.8402 to 1.8407 in.
 > Clearence should be not more than .0004 " I suspect that you meant
 >.004". I dont think Triumph owned any type of milling machines that
 >would hold a 4 ten thousandths of an inch tolerance!


..and Tony was not kidding, check the spec sheet for the engine, which
is at the start of Chapter 1 in the Haynes manual.   Many of those specs
are indeed given in `tenths', especially where the only thing between
two parts is an oil film !

Tom Tweed
SW Ohio