Tearing Down the £40 eBay Engine - Triumph TR7 Restoration Part 10

After failing to get my cheap engine running in the last video, I decided to tear it down and see what the problem was. After all, how long does it take to just take the head off the engine?

It turns out, it can take a long time. A very long time. Like, a couple of months of toil. It's fair to say this engine teardown didn't go too easy.

The main issue was the head studs - two out of the five were solidly seized in the head (and it turns out, the block as well) and it took weeks of careful work - followed by a few hours of something more... destructive - to get the head off. Once I had that off, actually stripping down the engine was fairly straightforward.

Aside from the damage suffered with the stripdown, this actually looks like being a fairly decent engine with very little wear on it. Subject to how things go at the machine shop, I think this can be saved.

If you want to know more about the TWOA's Head Honcho, here's the link: https://www.triumphwedgeowners.org/tr...

*Timestamps*

00:00 Intro
01:00 Trying to get the studs out
02:00 Checking the water pump
02:35 Success! The first studs come out.
05:12 'Rope trick' to pull the cylinder head off
06:00 'Head Honcho' explanation and DIY build
11:08 Trying to pull the head off!
12:48 Failure, and a more drastic method
14:16 The head comes off at last
17:04 Stripping down the rest of the engine
22:27 Inspecting the parts
25:07 Cleaning the sump
26:08 Inspecting the block and trying to remove studs
29:44 Giving up!
30:09 Coming up next
30:20 Outro

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