Re: [ST] Possible bad Triumph valve design

["Mike Benzon" <fast87@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I can, I will stop by the shop and take some photos of the valves. The
exhaust valves are the most damaged. Probably due to their heavier weight
with the same valve spring as their intake counterpart, which goes further
to support the argument.

Mike
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian D ." <brd@xxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ST] Possible bad Triumph valve design


> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:27:08PM -0700, Mike Benzon wrote:
> > They informed me there is a problem well known about the valve set up
> > in the Triumph heads world wide.
>
> Weird.  I've never heard of this or seen mention of it on this or the
> t595 list in the 2 years I've been on them, or on the tiger list.
> Couldn't find any mention on google or groups.google.com of it.  (Not to
> say that it's not true, just odd that it's not more widely publicized.)
> Maybe it's well known amongst moto machine shops, though.
>
> Can you post a pic of your cupped valves somewhere?
>
> Laters,
> Brian
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