Alan's Triumph Related Blog!

This is a running blog of my life....... which mainly seems to revolve around Triumph motor cars. At the moment, I am restoring "DEL 33", which is the prototype Stag Estate, built by Ian "Del" Lines of Atlantic Garages, Weston Super Mare. This car was featured in "Motor" in 1973 and was the start of the Lines Stag saloon and estates of which he built approx 26 of.

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

Rocker Shaft Rebuild

Sounds simple don't it.................... strip, clean and replace the rocker shaft. Hmmmmm. Okay, so, I wrote it all down, exactly whi...

Your Piston's coming to the boil!

So, collected the new piston from Mr Papworth last night (many thanks Mike!), I met him at The Griff Classic car meet (informal pub car park...

Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Engine Rebuild Part 3.......... Disaster!!!

So, today the plan was to get the bottom end on the engine back rebuilt. First problem came when I put the first piston in with its new ring...

Saturday, 16 August 2008

Stafford TSSC Show

Went to the TSSC National at Stafford today. To be honest, it was really very quiet........ but the 2000 Register and CT members managed to ...

Friday, 15 August 2008

Engine Rebuild part 2

Cam's in and timed up.................. thanks to Brian from Just Classics. Stafford TSSC tomorrow. Pistons on Sunday.............

Thursday, 14 August 2008

Engine Rebuild part I

So, on the 2004 RBRR the engine in the S estate started to burn severe amounts of oil. I must rebuild that, I thought. So, in preparation fo...

Sunday, 27 July 2008

Playing with "moderns"...........

We collected Sam's new car last week. 07 plate Focus Zetec. My old Mondeo I'd had from new as a company car, then we bought it off t...

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