- 21. [Healeys] Engine mods - Headers (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:09:31 -0700
- We might be going slightly off track here?but I put three HD6s in place of the HS4s on my tricarb. Also a set of headers at the same time. Made a very appreciable difference. Mind you, those original
- /html/fot/2017-03/msg00177.html (10,341 bytes)
- 22. [Healeys] Are these holes original? (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 17:08:24 -0700
- I?d guess (only) that those four holes ? two at each corner, right? ? were for the attachment of a luggage rack. There was/is a rack that was attached via the boot hinge pins and by screwing triangul
- /html/fot/2017-03/msg00282.html (9,240 bytes)
- 23. [Healeys] Are these holes original? (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:27:19 -0700
- Send me the distance between the 2 mystery holes and I?ll compare to my luggage rack/my boot lid. Simon The only holes along the bottom edge of the trunk lip are for the rivits that attach shroud to
- /html/fot/2017-03/msg00289.html (10,601 bytes)
- 24. [Healeys] Last Big Healey? (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:46:27 -0700
- Don't know about the colour but I'd always thought - and my books confirm - that the last 3000 was a one-off in '68 and that its chassis number was 43026. Fair enough...this one is '67 and 43025 so t
- /html/fot/2017-03/msg00308.html (9,708 bytes)
- 25. [Healeys] FW: Caliper Piston Dustcover (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:25:19 +0100
- Is my memory playing me up or, having stripped and split the caliper, doesn?t one fit pistons while it?s still split? (Just the once, as one splits the calipers, say, every 50 years.) Simon Hi Mike,
- /html/fot/2017-03/msg00408.html (8,906 bytes)
- 26. [Healeys] Trip to UK (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 11:43:34 +0100
- All depends on your need to plunge down those narrow roads in the first place .. And your need to carry your luggage. Poisonally .I?d hire a car sufficiently large for your party and its luggage and
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00070.html (11,767 bytes)
- 27. [Healeys] While in UK (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 21:43:51 +0100
- One thing.........you guys from the States are somewhat used to looking at a map and saying "Right, 50 miles....that'll take x minutes". When you do that in the UK you have to say "Right, 50 miles...
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00104.html (10,866 bytes)
- 28. [Healeys] Something to go in your bookcase alongside your Anderson/Moment Restoration Guide (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:52:56 +0100
- There?s another excellent book by Autobooks:- Autocare Manual:- ?Electrical Systems Including Tapes and Radios?. Autobbok 651 By David Rowlands ISBN:-0 85 147 905 7 First edition 1975 Plainly, the bo
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00122.html (8,689 bytes)
- 29. [Healeys] "Engine making a weird noise" (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:41:02 +0100
- Hi, Advice from the experts required please:- (No just the experts. We can all have a go. So, I got this, below, from my nephew just now:- QUOTE:- Hi Uncle Simon! ...... I went to work with the heale
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00143.html (9,910 bytes)
- 30. [Healeys] "Engine making a weird noise" (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:55:35 +0100
- You may be assured that when either my nephew or I require advice from anyone as to which car is suitable for whom, we shall ask for it. Until then, as I?ve previously asked you, let?s stick to the p
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00157.html (11,798 bytes)
- 31. [Healeys] "Engine making a weird noise" (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 09:12:04 +0100
- Thanks for all the replies. Now, I had thought that we were facing two separate issues:- The battery was flat because of frequent short trips and then a series of attempts to start a recalcitrant eng
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00158.html (12,887 bytes)
- 32. [Healeys] Generator swap (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 08:54:48 +0100
- Hi, I have a MkII BT7 fitted with an alternator. I still have the generator, C45 I think, and it's got new brushes, bearings etc. Works well. My nephew's car in Paris, being a BJ8, has a C42. Slightl
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00248.html (8,132 bytes)
- 33. [Healeys] distributor cap (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:54:21 +0100
- Yes, I've heard the same. See from my archives:- ""S.D.Lachlan From: Agoura Jim [bjate at pacbell.net] Sent: Monday, December 14, 1998 8:12 PM To: Editorgary at aol.com Cc: STOCKLAND at aol.com; owne
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00274.html (10,658 bytes)
- 34. [Healeys] TR6 Distributor (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:07:18 +0100
- I Thought I sent some pics the other day. Saw a TR6 at a little show. Pics don't seem to have got back to me. Did anyone get them? Actually, no... does anyone want them? Simon -- next part -- An HTML
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00296.html (6,966 bytes)
- 35. [Healeys] Dynalite or which alternator to C42 Generator (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 18:54:13 +0100
- My nephew's generator issues may resolve themselves soon. May... We may look at replacing the C42 in his BJ8 with an alternator, one of the generator lookalikes. Dynalite is one of the names I've com
- /html/fot/2017-04/msg00341.html (8,199 bytes)
- 36. [Healeys] Parisian volts (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 20:02:56 +0100
- The BJ8 genny saga continues. (My nephew is an Air Traffic Controller and his shifts have not enabled him to get down to the car as often as he might have liked. I've just retired, so the boot's on t
- /html/fot/2017-05/msg00152.html (10,956 bytes)
- 37. [Healeys] Dynalite or which alternator to C42 Generator (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 11:51:31 +0100
- The BMC manual claimed:- Type Car Cut-in rpm Max Amps/rpm C45 PV6 Up to BJ8 1,100-1,250 25amp/13.5v at 1,700-1,900 C42 BJ8 1,250 30amp/13.5v at 1,250 Lucas 17ACR alternator. Any neg car Dunno! 40amps
- /html/fot/2017-05/msg00164.html (9,896 bytes)
- 38. [Healeys] BJ8 weight (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 17:47:37 +0100
- Unladed weight:- 1,080kg/2,380lb Kerbside weight:- 1,115kg/2,460lb In my simple way I thought that this was:- Empty car:- 1,080kg Fully/max laden car:- 1,115kg A little thought shows that there is on
- /html/fot/2017-05/msg00179.html (7,593 bytes)
- 39. [Healeys] BJ8 Weight...almost there (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 18:46:23 +0100
- Seems like:- 1. I was being thick 2. The difference in weight is the fuel etc Simple when you think about it..just got to think. Is there a maximum permitted all up weight? I can't think what that wo
- /html/fot/2017-05/msg00181.html (7,559 bytes)
- 40. [Healeys] BJ8 timing, gap, plugs (score: 154)
- Author: simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk (Simon Lachlan)
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:39:39 +0100
- Hi, We shall be doing a few things to my nephew's BJ8 next week. (Assuming we can get its (new) genny to charge). Now, so far as we know, it's engine is pretty stock except it's running a Pertronix e
- /html/fot/2017-05/msg00199.html (8,522 bytes)
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