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Originally Posted by Scottie22
The thing I like about this site is that it seems to get results, I will explain:
A few days ago I made an appeal for a Triumph 1300 engine, and within about ten minutes, I was offered such an engine by Oxford 1360!
I mean come on, it doesn't get much better than that does it?
So today I popped down to the Oxford man-cave and for a few beers or so,
struck a deal for said engine.
At the same time, I was able to see in the flesh, the green monster!
It is more impressive in the flesh than it appears in the pictures, and will be an absolute cracker when completed.
Once I got the engine home, I removed the remaining two spark plugs and gave each cylinder a good shot of WD40 and left it to marinate.
Although I have developed a lot of skills over the years, engine re-builds is not one of them, so I will need to find a decent builder to work on the engine to get it into good shape.
So one more step in the right direction, I now have the engine.........
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My experience with engine rebuilding, I have done one and had a couple more done, is that by the time it is done the only thing left of the old engine is the block, head and reground crank.
It is easy to get carried away with the question "shall I keep the old pistons or replace them? After all they are on £20 each". Same for almost anything else in the engine. A quick rebuild suddenly becomes a grand.
You have been warned!