[Healeys] Roadside failures

[Michael Salter]

Great subject David,
I've had a few, mostly in customers cars during test drives or long distance
collections before I had a trailer, hope this helps.
1. The ignition ground wire to the master switch grounding through a jack
handle which was resting on the terminal of the switch!!
2. Water bump failure (twice) in different cars
3. Fuel pump failure (sudden and complete failure of the fuel pump coil)
4. Ignition point adjuster screw coming loose
5. Seized rear wheel cylinder
6. Broken spokes causing a puncture
7. Broken front stub axle (racing)
8. Punctured oil pan (rallying)
9. Split oil cooler
10. Excessive front wheel tramp caused by a leaked front shock
11. Broken clutch cover. Preventing clutch release (rallying)
12. Loosening off of rear wheel spline nuts.
13. Seized front caliper.
14. Corroded through head gasket.
15. Split lower rad hose.
16. Sludge in fuel tank blocking lines (The owner had used aircraft
"sloshing" compound in a rusted tank).
17. Distributor rotor failure (twice).
And probably a few more which I have forgotten.
Good luck with your presentation.

Michael Salter
100 (1953)
AHX12 (1953)
Bugeye (1961)
http://www.netbug.net/blogmichael/
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Sent: May 14, 2008 11:06 AM
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Subject: [Healeys] Roadside failures

I am going to be doing a Tech Session at Conclave in San Diego in  
late June on Roadside Failures and what to do, carry, etc. I am  
putting a list together of different roadside failures that people  
have had.

What roadside failures have you had while traveling in your  
Healey ??????????






David Nock
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