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Finding HUGE HOLE In Triumph 2500S Engine - Project Eddie 2

Mar 09, 2024
In this video we are going to look at the Triumph 2 500, we will understand why the

engine

exploded just below and we will do a complete autopsy of the

engine

. By now you may have noticed that I am dressed for a full surgical review. Stay until the end because I'm going to show you a very practical engineering tip that has been around for decades and that means you don't have to worry about all this clothing and it will help you fix your car. but first, of course, we're going to get this engine right, the first thing is to be a redhead, to make sure that I won't get sunburned, I won't risk blinking.
finding huge hole in triumph 2500s engine   project eddie 2
Decades of being a redhead is no fun. The first thing is to consult the manual. To remove the engine, any problem is that a friend lent me this book and it's a little torn, let's take a look at chapter one. Engine Duke, as you can see, found a sock inside and is currently running around the yard trying to get it. some kind of strange game, not quite sure what this is about engine removal methods, all cases have to be removed from below once the front suspension has been removed, estimated five and a half hours less with experience, so what could be 10 or 15 hours.
finding huge hole in triumph 2500s engine   project eddie 2

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I'll move on, okay, let's get started, I'll tell you what's going on, gloves and a very useful persuader. You never know when this might come in handy and the key thing I haven't done yet, but will do right now, is get the battery off, we don't want any nasty sparks and a good point that Harry just mentioned was making sure we took those pictures so that we can see what happens when reassembling, that's not bad advice, so we'll do it now, the first use. Persuader, that's it, those washers came loose anyway, the battery is now officially dead.
finding huge hole in triumph 2500s engine   project eddie 2
We only spent a little time there because we went to take my partner to the other side of the road so his man could go down and ask to borrow a motor lift. which will be very useful, we won't use it yet because so far all I've done is take the battery out, so most of the morning I run it anyway. Hopefully we'll continue this afternoon and Duke goes to help, Duke, good boy, okay, hurry up, yeah, how can an elephant ask for a sticky bun? sticky bun please sorry okay so on the actual supports safely so we can get in there yeah cool there you go is there any oil draining oil?
finding huge hole in triumph 2500s engine   project eddie 2
We have oil that is good. news points, it says total, there's some dripping around this exhaust here, which I suspect is fine and it's going down, but I just broke a couple of pipes on the top, it's okay, sorry, looks good, smells good, good, okay, so stacked safely. the chassis and there's a spare bit in there in case it collapses, always put an extra axle support in there just for the fun of going out. I can't look under the engine to see if that block blew out. Come on and this is the first time I've had a proper look under this car.
Apparently we have a

hole

up there somewhere. I can't see it currently. You may get a little wetter. So be careful, okay, they're going to bite me. wet, someone has something without the weight, okay, now we are in a position to have an analysis of what happened with the engine now that we have all the accessories off and if I pan, I actually put a mirror there. So you can see the true extent of the damage and it's absolutely shocking, it looks like it's been hit by a torpedo. That's the size. A big problem. That is the side of the crankcase that is at the bottom of the engine.
I think it's the crankshaft or what's left of it and we'll know more when we take it apart later, but that definitely shouldn't be there now, this could be fixed. I have seen videos online. It is made of cast iron. very fragile, there is a method called cold stitching, not that you can't weld this, but you can cold reattach the crankcase yourself. I think it will be a big job to do, but it could potentially be done, we can't. I don't know what's going on inside, we have to hold on and take a look at that and see what damage is underneath once we take the engine out, but I thought I'd share with you what damage is there, I mean it's literally. that's the size of my blinking fist look it's like I was hit by a 10 pound cannonball shattered beyond belief what kind of forces must have caused that um I'm very very surprised I knew things were wrong at first I thought it was just gearbox uh on the side of the road, but if you look there now that you've removed everything from the engine, you can really start to see what's going on.
I am dumbfounded. I already know what to say. All I said was yes, remind them to keep going. At the end I'm going to show you a little engineering tip, I promise at the beginning and obviously we have to dig into this and understand a lot more than we currently know, but the first indications are that it's pretty serious and I'm sure you'll get a appreciation now uh, that's just what we went through when the thing blew up on the m74, I mean, half the engine was left down there, spinning around in the inside lane of the highway when we literally stopped, amazing stop, okay.
So, at the end of the first day, what have we done? Virtually all accessories are turned off. Tomorrow we have to go and take a look at the steering pump that needs to come loose. I have the exhaust manifold removed, which is fine. um, little

hole

there, we're going to have to look at it when we take out the engine and we're also taking out the radiator, so we're all pretty clear, um, but for that, if I fix this On the side that we've removed from the front of the nose of the swirl there's a radiator, various other bits and pieces sorted because the day just flew by on this side, we all have clean fuel, I just separated it and um, yeah, we're good. to go once we've sorted out the power steering rack or the pump and then we have a grommet that ends here and there's one on the back so we're not going to take the gearbox out if we can help it so the gearbox gears fits tomorrow and hopefully we can lift it forward and remove the engine and all I want to do is get under it and look real good to see what damage we have inside, but that's enough for one day, I'm going to get in trouble, I It'll take about half an hour to sort out this mess, but I'm so grateful for my sunscreen, it saved my freckles and my sunburn, so here you go, there will be more strong thunderstorms in the morning tonight, so you better cover up, thanks Eddie.
Look, in the morning, okay, this is day two and we're working on thunderstorms and lightning overnight. I'm glad we put the cover over the car, but I think as you can see we ended up with a bit of a pool now some of you might say you have a garage Tony, why did they do it there? Well, unfortunately, the rest of the family beat me to it, full of Silver Cross baby strollers and whatnot, which is why it's not there anyway, um. I'm hoping the weather will improve later, there's a bit of blue sky there if you squint and maybe we can get to work later in the meantime, there's plenty to get on with well, well it's stopped raining marginally and, um, We're going to work as much as we can between rain, quite a few thunderstorms are predicted for later, as you can see how silly it is to wear suntan lotion one day and t-shirts are next with fleeces, so, of course Anyway, let's move on.
Get back to the car and see if we can fix this now, I guess whatever happens given the damage we saw here yesterday, with the cannonball hole in the side of the engine, around the sixth cylinder, the fifth and the sixth cylinder , things like that can potentially be cold stitch sewing, they call it, you might laugh when you hear me say that, but apparently they can, um, it's a pretty specialized skill, but I guess the real test will be to see what happens when we remove the cover from the rocking because I'm not sure if it was a top or bottom problem that blew up this engine.
Now I have removed the three retaining nuts on the top of the rocket cover, I'm just going to let you open the cover and see what's underneath because either way I'm going to take the cylinder head off before I take the motor out, maybe I will lighter and if we have to use a new engine maybe I can use the existing cylinder head from this one if that's ok, but of course all this riffing and extremes and we're getting pretty close to having to make a decision one way or another. I think about this engine now that we can see it in all its glory, so let's get into it.
From a layman's point of view, I can't see anything obviously wrong at first glance, but that doesn't mean that there is nothing wrong and there is no doubt that one or two of you will have an opinion either way to get my head around what I have to do under each of these nuts and under here, that's why I had to take the roof off now to get to them. I probably also have to remove this top rail, the next step to be able to remove the head so I can have a look at the pistons underneath and see what's what, but at first glance it doesn't look too bad unless I missed something that haven't seen too obvious, it will be in the back, that's where the problem was. the sixth and fifth cylinder, so that's six or five here, one of these two um and uh, let's take another look at the pushrod cam followers on your cable, um, I can't see if any of them are bent or not. , I don't know.
That could be that it spins fine, but it could bend a little. Actually, it might be a little bent. It's not going to fall like others do well. Well, uh, with your head as they say, that will be the next step. Let's see. What's happening? Well, now, as promised, I was going to give you some engineering advice. It comes from my father-in-law, who is a precision engineer and he taught me this a long time ago. It's very, very useful, obviously, he uses your bread. Don't be confident with this, but the technique you can use involves this lever and I'll show you in just a second, obviously, this motor is not running, but here's the deal.
Now let's say the engine is running and there might be a little bit of noise from below, you can't really see where it's coming from, well if you put the lever against, in this case, the crankcase or the rocker cover or even the fuel pump. water, meaning the casing of that kind of thing and then you put your Listen to it on the other end while you hold it in that position, obviously be safe, but you can actually hear all kinds of humming noises and gears breaking or whatever it is that beech, generally the sound is transferred through, basically, a piece of wood, so there it is.
Wow, that's the best advice for Harry the Stag. Give it a try and see how it goes. Be careful as I say, please, but the best advice involves a piece of wood. Listen to your ear and you can hear things happening inside the engine that you can't. I usually hear the opposite, okay guys, I warned you it's going to be a bit like open heart surgery and as you can see here, a lot of the engine has already broken down. What I'm going to do, I'm going to do another. In the video that follows this one, you can go back and see what happens when we take the engine out and do a full diagnostic underneath, other than the hole in the side, so that's something we need to be aware of, big question mark. about the future of this engine um if you can't wait until that long check out our next video and you'll see more deer engine shenanigans so head over there and watch that cheers for now.

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