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Started on the TR's new roof yesterday, firstly drilled out the rivets on the header seal.  Peeled back the cloth and then it just lifts off the frame leaving the 7 nuts accross the rear which came undone easily. Header looks worse it the pictures, most of what looks like rust is old glue.  Took stock of the parts.  A bit of surface rust but all serviable, they were cleaned up and given a coat of black paint as was the header.  Gave the frame a good look over, only issue I could see was this plate which controls the centre bow was bent.  A few taps sorted that out.  Just need tp get some glue and clean the frame up then it can all go back together, might be a couple of weeks though as I am in Germany for work most of this week. |
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Last Edit: Jun 5, 2022 6:25:05 GMT by kevins
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Finished the hood this evening, Firstly marked the centre and punched the holes for the rear retainong strip, fortunately noting the centre hole is not in the centre before I made any holes!  Cleaned up the hood frame.  Then bolted the back on loosley, and marked the centre of the windscreen and hood at the front.  Marked where the glue was needed and glued the header and hood.  Once it had dried I covered all but the centre with clean cloths.  Then pulled it forward glued the centre, the slowly pulled the cloths out while stretching and gluing the sides. The hood was not latched at this point, pulling it into the latches will tighten it further. Opened it up glued the underside and trimmed it back.  Then riveted the header seal, 2 little straps at the front corners and press studs in, job done.   The cloth is nice and wrinkle free, the windows are not as bad as the picture makes them look, hopefully they will flatten out a bit more with time. |
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Used the elan in the 31 degree heat on friday, wanted to see how it performed with the new alloy radiator, with original tiny rad it would climb up close to the red area of the gauge, on friday I had this after sitting in traffic for 10 minutes.  Ambient reads at the air intakein the front.  And the temperature never went above here (cycled down by 3 or 4 degrees as the fan went off and on). So thats a sucsess, only issue I did did find is it's developed a horrible creak from somewhere on the front suspension, I had a look and everything seems fine so it must just be the heat affecting a bush somewhere. Range rover is being used for transporting building materials (half a ton of ballast last week) but I did have to clean it up to take people to a family wedding in the week, mx5 has also been regularly used. I'm taking the TR7V8 to the Peter Best show later, this will be the first time I have used it this year, I'm thinking of getting rid of it though because it just doesn't get used. |
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Last Edit: Jun 19, 2022 7:18:57 GMT by kevins
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andyf
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Nice tidy finish on the hood of the TR looks good.
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1980 Triumph TR7.
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Well done, and thanks for the detailed tutorial. Even if I do not have one, it is great learning from others and the jobs done before. merlind100 Richard I am sure would agree, learning from others successes makes for an easier life. Like the waterway failure Nick sorted on the engine if my MX5 motor. |
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Jun 23, 2022 20:34:26 GMT |
TR windscreen has a bit of an issue.  Started off as a small crack at the bottom, in 30 miles it's extended top to bottom, body around it seems in good condition so its a call to the insurance company to relieve me of £100 tomorrow. |
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Jun 25, 2022 20:59:43 GMT |
Been looking at my idea to fit mx5 engine mounts to the minor, First thought was to modify a standard tower.  After a few attempts I ended up with thus which did the job but is rubbish.  It does though gve me a pattern from it I made a wooden jig to make one from scrath using 4mm plate.  Cut the plate up with my evolution saw (amazing tool) and ended up with 2 of these.  Which when assembled looked like this.  Just need to clean the welds and paint it all. |
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Pretty neat. It'll be interesting to hear what effect this has on NVH...
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Master cylinder mounted and ready to go in car, alloy spacer on the front was machined up to give flat surface for the screws to pull up on. all in place along with the pedals and plumbed into the rear  Kevins, just found this thread while searching for Minor brake mods, some great info here, thank you. Do you have any pics of how you connected the fluid reservoirs? Thanks. |
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I used 2 lengths of pvc coated copper pipe as used in LPG conversions, they run down the inside of the chassis leg held in with p clips and through 2 holes drilled in the front.  From here they and similar clutch pipe run up to a fiat reservoir with 3 outlets and level switch. Which can just about be seen in this picture  On the car front i'm on holiday for a couple of weeks but before we left we gabe the minor a service and adjusted tappets and handbrake, only issue we coud find was leaking from one of the rear brake bleed nipples, nipped it up which seems to have stopped it, wonder if it may be the repro ones are too short as it seems to bottom out against the nut rather than the taper. Only other issues are it uses oil, it smokes whenever it's been idling or slowing down but is fine when driving along, normaly this would point to valve guides but it has new A+ guides and seals, only thing I wonder is if the cam having a higher lift is causing the spring cap to hit the seal and force oil past it..  Not the end of the world, it drives really well but I would like to get to the bottom of it. Other issue is the gearbox is sounding pretty rough, I'm pretty sure it just needs new bearings so we have bought another one for £60 which is supposed to be OK to strip and re-build. |
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Last Edit: Jul 5, 2022 9:42:15 GMT by kevins
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I used 2 lengths of pvc coated copper pipe as used in LPG conversions, they run down the inside of the chassis leg held in with p clips and through 2 holes drilled in the front. Perfect, thanks. I wasn't sure from the picture if they cleared the standard floor enough for pipes to be fitted. I've seen this done with both the Beetle and Wilwood master cylinders but could never work out how the reservoirs were plumbed in. Thanks for your help. |
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Last Edit: Jul 5, 2022 17:57:35 GMT by kevins
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Break down on the minor today, it's fuel starvation, (loses all power, leave it idling for a whole and it's ok for another few minutes). It's been fine for 3 years but last trip Andrew could only get E10, fuel pump and tank were on the car when we got it and it had been off the road for ages so my guess is either it has washed crud loose in the tank or damaged something in the pump. Also since adjusting the tappets which had quite big gaps it apparantly smokes at idle even more which I think means we may be onto something with the valve spring cap hitting the stem seal.
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