Replacing Triumph TR7 Engine and Trans Mounts 

Keeping a TR3 on the road took many hours of wrenching. I'm too old to use tools these days so it's a pleasure to watch work.

More Triumph videos please, especially on any topic related to the TR3.

My first car at fifteen was a ‘76 TR7. I mowed lawns and worked at a marina to save up for it. Good memories.

You really make things easy to understand, and your camera angles help define what you tell us and try to show us. Thanks.

Knowledge and expertise never fail to amaze. 10 minutes to replace 3 months!

Yes, please, more triumph videos. I have never ridden in, drove, or knew anyone that had a tr7. So I'd like to learn more about them.

Haha, you're dead right about the studs! It took me almost two months to get the head off mine for that exact reason 😮 I didn't know you had a TR7, I hope to see more of it soon!

I would definitely appreciate more TR7 videos.

Instant thumbs up for calling it a bonnet.

Somehow the car actually looked better at the end with those tidy little fixes hidden underneath. Hope it gets some nice drives now !

Nice job! Funny what a few years soaking in oil will do to those rubber mounts.

I've been through a Bugeye Sprite, MGA, MGB-GT, two TR7s (Which are a pretty good car once you re-assemble one, and yes I took off a badly seized cylinder head with several tools not considered appropriate for the job.) and a TVR2500M now sitting in a trailer waiting for its turn. Never my only transportation available but mostly daily drivers when our Maine winters begin to evaporate each spring. I envy your ability to find these vehicles as well as the gumption to bring them back to life. Your videos have encouraged me to shelve my excuses and put the TVR back together this year. Great series!

I’m 6’1” and drove a TR7. I can’t believe how it accommodated my frame. I’ve been wanting one of those since I was a kid. I’m 53 now.

I have the TR7 with a rover v8. so these videos are appreciated.

Love the originality of this TR7, even the original wheels! It would be great to see more TR7 videos. What happened about the blue Jaguar XJ, did you get it running properly?

Hey Steve, great video. On your next release please splice together the video of the old mounts and shaking motor and then with the new mounts. Loved seeing the TR7 getting fixed.

brilliant teaching Steve well done

Steve... Thank you for the Pressure Switch advice. Steve you should have done a before and after start up so we could see the difference in the movement. Great video.

I really enjoy your videos and I would like to see more Triumphs. Nice work Steve!

Great job. Love the Tr7. I just found your channel... I love what you're doing....

Well done Steve - would be great to see more TR7 content.

Nice wedge of Triumph you've got there, mate!

Love the TR7 I have a TR8 in Australia. Keep them coming

I can still remember their commercials...the shape of things to come, and one commercial showed the car being parked in a similarly shaped garage. Yes...more Triumph videos regardless of model or vintage.

More triumphs please 👍👍👍

Thanks for this as it answers all my questions.

Very helpful, thank you very much for posting :)

Nice to see you have not ripped out your engine out and put a V8 in like so many have done, and good to there are guys who like Triumph in the USA 🇺🇸 AS much as we do in the UK 🇬🇧 👍😊

Great video Steve

Good stuff Steve I look forward to every video keep up the good content. Love to see you tear down anything that you want all makes for good video

Love the content. Always a satisfying feeling to complete some small jobs on a classic car. Please more Triumphs! Spitfires, TR250s, Stags. We want more Triumph.

I have a 1980 Spider. I need to replace my mounts as well. I've had the battery cut off for years.

I live in a rural area of Missouri, I remember about 10 years after the TR7 came out you could be driving along on a rural road and see a TR7 sitting somewhere in lawn or a fencerow. It has been many years since I have seen one for sale anywhere. A fellow I knew bought one in 1980 and could not figure out why it was not running right, especially when he let off the throttle. I asked him if he had checked to see if the oil level in the dashports on the SUs was correct, of course he had not. It was a shame that the TR7s were not well sorted since the TR6 was a good car.

Nice! More tr7 content please

I remember the mid seventies TR7 commercials; the car would park into a triangle shaped garage....

Nice video as always but it would have been good to see a before and after engine start to show the difference the new mounts made. Keep up the good work with your beautiful collection of British classics.

Its amazing how clean you always are, I would have grime and oil everywhere doing that job.🤣

Hi Steve. You always surprise us with another " new" car ! I' m sure the car is original but the bonnet /hood looks like a V8 type ,maybe tied in with the air con pump ? And you're right that engine was not one of Triumphs greatest moments ! Thanks Steve .

More Triumph videos please. Fond memories of a 1968 TR5 that I had while I was stationed in Wales when I was in the Navy. Interesting car, 2.5 liter in line six with fuel injection (mechanical). She was fun to drive!

Nice video Steve, would like to see that GT6 you've got there.

The engine was a join venture with SAAB and British Leyland.

Always wondered how SAAB was able to make this engine work and turbo it.

The aftermarket engine and transmission mounts use urethane that's much MUCH harder than the originals. They're supposed to damp out vibrations, which is why they were pretty soft to begin with. But today's hard materials may look like they're doing an impressive job of minimizing wobbly vibration, while in fact they're just transmitting that vibration into the car where it's not a good thing at all. If you find yourself replacing any more of those transmission mounts, let me know - I'm collecting them to strip out the metal parts and recast the urethane with a softer (original-style) grade, and I only have a couple to work with while I do my experiments. P.S. - the TR8 mounts used to be a bit stiffer than the TR7 ones to cope with the higher engine power and vibration levels, but today they're all made with urethane that's as hard as a bowling ball, so it really doesn't matter which one you choose.

Thanks for bringing us on that repair Steve. Did it make much difference?

What the Hell??? No post installation engine start up! Grrrr .... I was waiting for that.

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That slant 4 engine was excellent. SAAB used it. It is still made in China even today.

Has the TR7 been resprayed Steve? Reason I ask: any red Triumphs I've seen, especially TR7s, tend to have faded over time, turning an almost pinky white colour. That one looks to have good paint. Of course, it could be a climate thing. Yours isn't enduring Scottish weather.😁

More TR7 content please

Nope ... I bought a 1976 TR7 coupe in 1985 First job was off with the Head for coolant leaks ... no problemo ... ran fine thereafter.

It's funny that Alfa trans mounts have an upgrade as well.

I would have liked to seen it running smoothly after your work.

Hi, I’m new to the channel and I’m sure you’ve been asked this before but do you own all these cars? I can think of nothing I’d like more than to have this lot to tinker with. Enjoy the videos, thanks👍👍

You'll have lots of fun doing the waterpump one day lol

Yeah, what a shame that the TR7 developed such a bad rep. The coupe was the typical odd Bertone wedge. A far cry (waaaaaah!) from the trim TR models that preceded it. But when Triumph brought out the convertible, then it became a real looker! Please do more TR7 maintenance & improvement videos Would be good to know if a replacement head can be had that is not aluminum? Even better, a conversion kit ... that improved head with an improved bolt-down arrangement.

So...where did you get the motor mounts please? I can not find any....

I am surprised there is not more cussing. When I do stuff like motor mounts - it is messy, getting the clearances to remove it are painful and it takes a long time. We need to see the edits you left on the computer, Steve.

Might have been nice to show the engine start up after the new mounts were installed. A "before and after" so to speak.

So...when is the test drive? With the amount of work done. It would be nice to hear your opinion on performance? Wouldn't a test drive FEEL better.

In the last WEEK or so, I have run across ads for a TR7 and then a TR8, both with " frozen " clutches. Is changing a clutch/removing a clutch on either car so incredibly difficult that folks all but give them away in desperation? (BOTH cars were priced UNDER $5,000.)

Was this the same as the 2.0 Saab?

I have one of these in our shed is it worth fixing up it has 48 thousand miles on it I got it when I was 16

easy with hoist

Jeez, a TR7....No need for more! Where's that GT6 you had in there a few months back? (I'll keep asking until you do a video on it)

forgot there was a TR8

Ecotec 2.4 swap...?...🤔😜.....turbo....😳😉

Most of the aftermarket engine and transmission mounts are poor quality and much too hard so you may get lots of extra noise and vibration from them. One of the tricks is to use the transmission mount from a Volvo 740/840 which are almost identical and easily adapted to fit. The original equipment quality mounts are still available for them and I have fitted them on my TR7s.