- 21. Re: timing chain advice (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:10:18 EST
- An interesting thought - and one which begs the question (since we are all now very used to the timing BELT being a maintenance-type 70-80K CONSUMABLE in our rice-rockets) that, shouldn't a properly
- /html/healeys/2005-03/msg00353.html (6,840 bytes)
- 22. Re: Austin Healey BN3 (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:11:16 EST
- << Subject: Re: BN3s - Or are they? >> So now there are (at least) four? I had always thought that the Quinn car was unique, as in "one". How many prototypes can there be of something, before it beco
- /html/healeys/2005-03/msg00724.html (7,156 bytes)
- 23. Re: Piston Compatibility (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:43:37 EST
- Sorry, but pistons are NOT interchangeable between the 100-6 and the 3000! The displacement increase from 2639cc to 2912cc was obtained by increasing the bore. Stroke, already long, was not changed.
- /html/healeys/2005-02/msg00151.html (6,574 bytes)
- 24. Re: RH fuel pump location 2+2 cars (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 23:52:49 EST
- My one-owner 1962 BT718556 has the factory RH mounted pump - it is mounted outboard, pretty nearly flush with the wheel arch. It has never been off the car, and still works perfectly! It would be a
- /html/healeys/2005-02/msg00235.html (6,655 bytes)
- 25. Door handle wanted, LEFT, for tricarb (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:33:27 EST
- Fellow listers: Am looking for a good, COMPLETE, usable, door handle for my 1962 BT7, for the LEFT side door. I have not torn into the door yet, so I do not know how much of "whatever is on the insid
- /html/healeys/2005-02/msg00440.html (6,820 bytes)
- 26. Tonneau cover (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:33:01 EST
- Now that my 62BT7 tri-carb is drivable again, and, with summer coming on, in a dry sunny climate, I need to do something about covering the interior when the car is out of the garage. What is the wi
- /html/healeys/2005-02/msg00659.html (6,735 bytes)
- 27. Re: Friday funnies vs. taste (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:06:06 EST
- Gentlemen, and Ladies, with all due respect . . . . . . . . Yes, some of the funnies are a bit crude (well, a very few are quite crude) but, I think that, in microcosm, the suggestion that they be dr
- /html/healeys/2005-02/msg00673.html (8,413 bytes)
- 28. Re: 4 into 2 onto 1 exhaust header (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 15:11:03 EST
- Have no idea as to relative pipe lengths, but I do recall reading somewhere that firing order needs to be taken into account, rather than just combining the easiest/closest pair. Dick Hosmer
- /html/healeys/2005-01/msg00035.html (7,491 bytes)
- 29. Re: Hot Cam question for discussion (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:48:49 EST
- Please help me, I'm lost here - what would you (have to) cut on the block, due to a milled head? Notching pistons I could understand. Dick Hosmer 62BT7
- /html/healeys/2005-01/msg00341.html (7,856 bytes)
- 30. Re: More Specifics on Main / Rod Bearings (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:34:56 EST
- Journal Diameter: 2.3742 to 2.3747" Crankpin Diameter: 2.0000" to 2.0005" Undersizes available: -0.010" , -0.020" Note that there IS a difference between the BN4 and later 3000 engines - the -0.030"
- /html/healeys/2005-01/msg00399.html (7,116 bytes)
- 31. Re: Yet another ebay scam (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:33:39 EST
- << 4510930511 >> I'd be much more concerned that the price is WAAAY too low than the obviously transposed pic. Note the 56 feedbacks, with 100% rating. That is a lot for a car lister. It STILL may be
- /html/healeys/2004-12/msg00198.html (6,721 bytes)
- 32. Re: Friday Humor Parrot Redux (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:41:31 EST
- One good parrot story deserves another: The minister was about to retire, and his flock wanted to purchase a parting gift for him. Much discussion ensued, and it was finally decided to purchase a pet
- /html/healeys/2004-11/msg00140.html (7,681 bytes)
- 33. Re: Overdrive wierdness - I'm not really sure (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 17:11:24 EST
- For highway driving where I'm expecting to just cruise at part throttle, I usually move the dashboard switch back to "normal" immediately after engaging OD. Then a simple jab on the gas will kick it
- /html/healeys/2004-11/msg00166.html (8,748 bytes)
- 34. Re: 1960 Carb options (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:02:43 EST
- I believe that a more common 1960 mod would have been to add a third 1.75" HD6. Ken Rudd Engineering ("Ruddspeed") offered this, and, with a hotter (no specs available at present) cam, some port work
- /html/healeys/2004-11/msg00214.html (7,571 bytes)
- 35. Brake master cylinder for 1962 3000BT7 Mk2 (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:10:35 EST
- My mechanic says my brake master cylinder cannot be rebuilt - he has tried - and it does not work properly. What is the best source for a replacement - any one brand better than another? Anything I
- /html/healeys/2004-11/msg00474.html (6,650 bytes)
- 36. Re: HS2 Carb gurus (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 00:22:26 EDT
- It seems to me that you may have broken THE cardinal rule and fixed something that was NOT broken!!! Needles and jets are "preventative maintenance"??? Just my .02 :-) Dick Hosmer HBT7L18556 Check o
- /html/healeys/2004-10/msg00069.html (6,520 bytes)
- 37. Re: Ruddspeed (was Re: Train Robbers Sports Car for Sale) (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 11:10:20 EDT
- I have a magazine article somewhere, circa 1961, and, I also have some actual correspondence (airmailed onionskins) from Ken Rudd, when I was considering getting the parts for my 1959 BN7, which was
- /html/healeys/2004-10/msg00151.html (7,822 bytes)
- 38. Re: Steering collumn (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:08:53 EDT
- I've had similar thoughts!!!!!! The most obvious thought would be to fit some sort of column with a collapsible section, whether composed of some sort of 'lacy' gridwork, or whatever, that would shor
- /html/healeys/2004-10/msg00157.html (8,327 bytes)
- 39. Re: Steering column (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 16:11:41 EDT
- Hey guys, I don't "obsess" about safety - but I'm not 22 years old any more, either - I've owned a Healey since 1959; my current one since 1962 - and I feel that some of the more recent postings bord
- /html/healeys/2004-10/msg00165.html (7,608 bytes)
- 40. Re: Steering column (No Healey Content) (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:09:21 EDT
- All I said was that I was aware of, and had thought about, a rather serious potential hazard. As pointed out, I've owned a Healey since 1959 - OBVIOUSLY, that should demonstrate my affection for the
- /html/healeys/2004-10/msg00186.html (7,070 bytes)
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