[Healeys] Trafficator, horn problem

[Michael Salter]

Hi Bob,

Presumably the BJ7 has an adjustable steering wheel. Regardless of whether
or not it does you can release the stator tube by loosening the brass nut on
the bottom of the steering box. To pull the entire tube and harness out you
will need to disconnect the wiring up behind the grille and carefully feed
the bullets up through the box. Oil will run out of the steering box (or
should) so be ready to catch that.

I would suspect that the car has an adjustable wheel and that the short tube
has rusted to the long one or been forced down too far. 

I have encountered a number of these switches where people have bent back
and broken the "ears" off. This problem can be corrected with careful
application of some spots of weld on the broken ears, but it is tricky to
get the head on exactly straight.

 

Michael Salter

100 (1953)

AHX12 (1953)

Bugeye (1961)

http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/

 

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces+msalter=precisionsportscar.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+msalter=precisionsportscar.com at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Bob Johnson
Sent: March 31, 2008 3:13 PM
To: Healeys
Subject: [Healeys] Trafficator, horn problem

 

A friend of mine has a BJ7. Last week his wife was driving the car when the

horn, trafficator assembly less the stator tube fell out of the steering

wheel. When I went and looked, everything was OK except that the rest of the

assembly had come loose from the tube. On my car , if you loosen the set

screws, everything including the tube slides right out. His tube is firmly

stuck in the column. How hard should I pull on the tube? What could be
holding

it? His problem is that the ears on the short piece that connects to the
tube

have either broken off somewhat or have simply somehow gotten straightened
so

they no longer hold. Any help would be appreciated. Also, someone sent me
pics

of this assembly when I took mine apart. If I had those again, it would be

helpful.

 

Thanks,

 

Bob Johnson

BJ8