Engine Restoration Underway

I've been terrible about working on the Triumph these past few months.  Work had been crazy and any free time that I had was spent catching up on errands.  Memorial Day weekend could not come soon enough and Chris and I spent the entire weekend in New York rebuilding the engine (not complete, but we got a lot done).  These next few posts will all be about the engine.  Hopefully, I'll make up for my delinquency in Triumph restoration and posts with lots of of pictures.

Why New York for restoration?  Chris' great uncle Fred lives in New York.  Fred is a machinist by trade and self-taught mechanic.  Over the years, he has restored 3 1960s Ford Mustangs and a 1929? Ford Model T, maintained various daily drivers that he has owned, fixed motorcycles/mopeds/bicycles...the list goes on...

Now how to get to New York without the transmission and engine moving around in the truck bed?  We built a wooden frame to fit in the truck with various wooden pieces to keep the engine and transmission snuggly in place.  Although the engine is not super heavy (still heavy), we used the engine hoist to load the engine into the back of the truck and hauled the engine hoist all the way to New York with us to offload it in when we got there.

Next up the engine restoration...