Rusty Custard
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:09 pm
I have been asking individual questions and queries about the car and engine, to build up my knowledge on the 2000, so thank you to everyone who has helped with advice and parts etc.. Well now we know what we have, we can start the project.
My friends Martin, Lee and myself ran my Stag in the 2018 Club Triumph RBRR, unfortunately entirely due to my own error we were DNF when I put 1/2 tank of diesel in at Glendrid services (1,223 miles in), with no time to pump it out and get to the next control, we made the call and retired. Which was a great shame as the Stag was running like a dream. After a few days of self a**e-kicking, we chatted about what we had learnt and we decided a) we had unfinished business, b) for three-up a Stag isn’t the best car to have.
We were impressed by the abilities shown by the various big Triumph saloons on the RBRR and agreed that that’s what we would need for the next RBRR in 2020. The search started for a car, the initial budget wasn’t vast, but we can put money into the car as we go along. We went to look at various cars, some truly appalling and way over-priced. I saw our car on a Facebook Cars for Sale page, posted by Dave Marshall. As it happened I was at the NEC the following weekend at the November Classic Car Show on a non-Triumph club stand and Dave very kindly brought the car along on the Saturday lunchtime for a short test drive.
The car has some faults, but was honestly described by Dave and it felt like it was something that we could work with. The deal was done and Martin and I drove up to Redditch to pick the car up. Martin drove it home with me in the chase car, we got home in one piece and met the following weekend to assess in detail what we had bought. It’s a 1971 2000 in Saffron.
You may have noticed on some of the other topics that I have been querying engine identification. The engine has no number, just a part number where you would expect the engine number to be. Dave said that he had bought the engine as a used recon 2.0 litre unit from a car being broken, after checking today, with a boroscope, what we actually have is a late 2500 unit, the part number referring to a factory reconditioned unit.
A compression test shows reasonable compression for a used engine, except no. 5 cylinder which only shows 110 psi. A little oil down the bore and then a retest didn’t improve the reading, so the diagnosis is one or other of the number 5 valves not seating properly, so the next stage is a head off and a decoke.
I’ll keep posting the news here.
My friends Martin, Lee and myself ran my Stag in the 2018 Club Triumph RBRR, unfortunately entirely due to my own error we were DNF when I put 1/2 tank of diesel in at Glendrid services (1,223 miles in), with no time to pump it out and get to the next control, we made the call and retired. Which was a great shame as the Stag was running like a dream. After a few days of self a**e-kicking, we chatted about what we had learnt and we decided a) we had unfinished business, b) for three-up a Stag isn’t the best car to have.
We were impressed by the abilities shown by the various big Triumph saloons on the RBRR and agreed that that’s what we would need for the next RBRR in 2020. The search started for a car, the initial budget wasn’t vast, but we can put money into the car as we go along. We went to look at various cars, some truly appalling and way over-priced. I saw our car on a Facebook Cars for Sale page, posted by Dave Marshall. As it happened I was at the NEC the following weekend at the November Classic Car Show on a non-Triumph club stand and Dave very kindly brought the car along on the Saturday lunchtime for a short test drive.
The car has some faults, but was honestly described by Dave and it felt like it was something that we could work with. The deal was done and Martin and I drove up to Redditch to pick the car up. Martin drove it home with me in the chase car, we got home in one piece and met the following weekend to assess in detail what we had bought. It’s a 1971 2000 in Saffron.
You may have noticed on some of the other topics that I have been querying engine identification. The engine has no number, just a part number where you would expect the engine number to be. Dave said that he had bought the engine as a used recon 2.0 litre unit from a car being broken, after checking today, with a boroscope, what we actually have is a late 2500 unit, the part number referring to a factory reconditioned unit.
A compression test shows reasonable compression for a used engine, except no. 5 cylinder which only shows 110 psi. A little oil down the bore and then a retest didn’t improve the reading, so the diagnosis is one or other of the number 5 valves not seating properly, so the next stage is a head off and a decoke.
I’ll keep posting the news here.