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Re: Run on

To: Healey net <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Run on
From: "P.M. Pollock" <pollpete@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:42:31 -0700
My BJ7 ran on for all the 25 years I drove it (from new).  Nothing I tried ever 
fixed the
problem or even lessened it, but I learned the "drag the clutch at shut off" 
trick early
on.

When I rebuilt the engine I found one of the pistons had been dropped.  Landed 
on the
outside at the top edge, angled in just a bit-  so the metal displaced from the 
dent was
pushed into a little nipple protruding up into the chamber.

25 years of a British craftsmanship glow plug!

Pete Pollock
BJ7
N. California




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