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| 'Dead' TXRR - any one want a challeng... |
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Matthew Geier
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Username: matthew
Post Number: 4
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 08:04 am: | 
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I've got a TXRR twin that Aub Rose has said 'too difficult/expensive to fix'.
The engine has been stopped for the best part of 18 years and not stored properly. Mr Rose had refurbished it around 1980 or so - I remember watching him hand cut the white-metal bearings in the crank case. And my childhood memories are of him being 'an old guy' back then.
In all probability there is water in the crank case and it's rusted the crank shaft to the casing. It was left with salt water in the cooling path it appears - it was never flushed out. So that's all rusted up as well.
The engine doesn't have a brass builders plate and the manifold bolts are rusted in tight, so I have no idea of it's serial no.
Shortly I will be visiting Mr Rose to talk about the engine. I expect it goes in his scrap bin after that.
I also have a clutch - but it's not the type that's in the manual, it's an 'open' arrangement with a collar that presses two fingers against pads that pull two clutch plates together.
If you want a challenge, you would have to get it from Kirawee. I have no means of moving it
(I have a boat on a trailer but no car :-)
I'm seriously thinking of putting an electric system in the boat...
If any one is interested, contact me. In a week or so it goes for scrap. |
Julian DuBois
Advanced Member
Username: jules
Post Number: 39
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 08:54 pm: |
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would you be able to find out freight costs to adelaide? |
Matthew Geier
Member
Username: matthew
Post Number: 5
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 09:21 pm: |
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How much does one weigh ?. I expect it would need to be built into a wooden crate and moved with a fork-lift. |
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