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Hi.
I am sure this question is answered in bits and pieces all over the forums, but perhaps not all.

I bought a toy...1955 Triumph TR2 and the love of my life paid me back by breaking a head stud. 8(
1980 SC. So now the question is what to do while this is being fixed to minimise both current and future cost. I do not want to do a full rebuild as the engine is in super original condition.

The current state of the car is:
180 000 km and can still reach 235kph on the clock.
Acceleration is stellar and the engine spins extremely freely and eagerly.
The gearbox has a very worn 1st synchro, but 2nd is ok-ish and the others are fine. A positive shifting attitude shows no problems there either. So all in all there does not seem anything wrong as such in the drive train. I did pick up a clutch judder recently which most people seem to say can be mountings, clutch cable, pilot bearing or worst case a broken fork? Its not undrivable though and the judder is variable. Mostly evident when pulling off uphill or on lower gears if I shift slowly at the point where the clutch bites.

The work.
I know this really means stud/s (lower, upper or both??), rings and valve work.
I guess at the same time Clutch and its bearings.
But besides these basic things I do not know enough to determine what I should perhaps look at at the same time. Since cost is somewhat of an issue I do not want to look at something that is preventative, but unnecessarily so.

Any advice would be most welcome.