Blueprint's 1975 Triumph TR6

[Blueprint]

Long story short: life got ahead of me this season and the TR6 stayed put in its storage location 

I paid her a visit today with a gigantic HR-V to air-up the tires and roll it a bit to avoid flat-spotting.

[RRocket]

Long story short: life got ahead of me this season and the TR6 stayed put in its storage location 

Bummer...that's very sad, eh?

[Blueprint]

Long story short: life got ahead of me this season and the TR6 stayed put in its storage location 

Bummer...that's very sad, eh?

Yup. Away all of August - and we lost a week thanks to Air Canada stranding us abroad, crazy workload, health issues with my Dad and the MIL being a /$%?& as always (her dust-coated, dead battery Rogue blocks the TR6, and moving it involves too much PR at the moment...)

[Revelations]

Think on the bright side, nothing had a chance to go wrong mechanically. Old cars, if they're not being driven they have zero chance to malfunction and leave you on the side of the road!

Looks like it has a nice spot to sit in though.

[Firm]

It happens, hopefully you put some stabilizer in the tank last time you ran it....That's really the only issue with these 100% analog cars sitting, fuel goes bad and gums everything up. It sure looks pretty, and has a nice well protected spot.

[Gurgie]

Man, I wouldn't be able to do it, I'd prioritize getting that thing running before everything else 

[Blueprint]

It happens, hopefully you put some stabilizer in the tank last time you ran it....That's really the only issue with these 100% analog cars sitting, fuel goes bad and gums everything up. It sure looks pretty, and has a nice well protected spot.

Full tank of premium with a can of Seafoam 

[Blueprint]

Just got a notice from the condo managers and they need to clear the garage to clean all the a/c compressors in early November. That means I have to get a new battery for the dead Rogue, and kick off a strategy to get rid of it as MIL lost her driver's licence last year and it won't come back. Mediation has begun its negociations 

It also means I will have to fire up the TR6 and drive it home - shucks, honey, I have to take my toy out 

[Gurgie]

Just got a notice from the condo managers and they need to clear the garage to clean all the a/c compressors in early November. That means I have to get a new battery for the dead Rogue, and kick off a strategy to get rid of it as MIL lost her driver's licence last year and it won't come back. Mediation has begun its negociations 

It also means I will have to fire up the TR6 and drive it home - shucks, honey, I have to take my toy out 

Bring it home for the winter & park everything else outside Then work on it as much as you can so she's ready for the spring

[Blueprint]

Just got a notice from the condo managers and they need to clear the garage to clean all the a/c compressors in early November. That means I have to get a new battery for the dead Rogue, and kick off a strategy to get rid of it as MIL lost her driver's licence last year and it won't come back. Mediation has begun its negociations 

It also means I will have to fire up the TR6 and drive it home - shucks, honey, I have to take my toy out 

Bring it home for the winter & park everything else outside Then work on it as much as you can so she's ready for the spring

I seriously need a double car garage    It is a formal requirement of mine once we're ready to downsize. Ideally one that allows a lift for the two dd to be warm and dry and the TR to sit on top (with diapers  )

[Blueprint]

The TR6 made it home with no issues, but it runs rough as it did last year. I suspect points and electrical, but the refresh will only happen next spring. I may attempt to install the backup hood release kit before storing it again while I wait for a sunny day to drive it back to the condo.

[Blueprint]

So TR6's are noteworthy for hood release failures, the cable being frail. When it breaks, opening the bonnet requires, according to experts, headlight removal, a flashlight, a broomstick and lots of cursing. Thankfully, Moss developed a clever emergency release kit that hides a release handle up in the passenger footwell. It's a good thing Triumph engineers provided that little sliding tab for the new cam to hook into (see picture). Or perhaps it's a vestigial component that dates back to the TR3 days, who knows? In any case, the TR6 stayed home long enough for me to have time to install the hood release kit. I bought new drill bits to ease drilling through metal, and I solved what commenters said was the toughest part of the install - the rubber grommet - by using a disposable chopstick to push the thing in - plop!

Once that was done, with a short rain break, I drove the TR6 back to its winter digs, patted it goodnight, and closed its hood shut - with no hesitation for a change. Two days later, we received a bit of snow and lots of freezing rain, and overnight we just received 20 cm of heavy, fluffy white stuff. That was close!

[Tortoise]

Nice fix!

It looks like that tab is used to limit the range of travel for the release mechanism.

Would it be hard to route a new brake cable from a bike to replace the stock one?

[Firm]

Looks good, nice clean solution. C4 Corvettes are known for the same thing, except they have two latches, on my last one I just neatly looped a piece of bailing wire around each and tucked them up under the wiper cowl, nearly invisible, but critical if the main release cable ever failed.

[Blueprint]

Nice fix!

It looks like that tab is used to limit the range of travel for the release mechanism.

Would it be hard to route a new brake cable from a bike to replace the stock one?

It's a simple yet neat little kit! You see it a lot under TR6 bonnets on BaT. You're probably right for the tab's function, and notice that the kit included a bolt too to act as a stopper. It's optional, but sure enough my first test pull went too far and the drill came out again 

Lots of projects for spring 2026: replace spark plugs, cables, cap, rotor and points, in that order, and see at each step how it runs before proceeding to the next one. Never dabbled in points before, I'll have to educate myself. All the parts are already here. If still rough then SU carbs, working my way up from the low-level fruit to the top, one bit at a time. Driving it will be part of the "cure", of course, to run that can of Seafoam through the system.