[Healeys] Pistons

Bob Spidell bspidell at comcast.net
Sat Jan 10 20:05:24 MST 2009


With that many things wrong, I'd rebuild the engine.

The rocker arm rebuilder is Rocker Arm Specialist ( 
http://www.rockerarms.com/ )
I had good service from them, as have other listers.

Can't help on the pistons; I'm interested myself.

Cheers,
Bob


RAWDAWGS at aol.com wrote:
> Bad news. Was trying to get my BN4 that has been setting for years to start  
> and noticed a stuck valve. Thought maybe get here running and a temp cycle 
> will  free it up. Then noticed a bent pushrod and thought might as well pull the 
> head.  Did that and noticed the No 1 and 6 pistons are burned. Just a little 
> at the  edge.(I will post some pictures tomorrow). So it looks like I am going 
> to need  some advice.I am thinking about changing the pistons, with the engine 
> in the  car. My questions:
>  
> 1. Am I crazy not to pull the lump and completely rebuild?
> 2. Who is the list favorite piston supplier currently?
> 3 No lead head? Yea or nay.
> 4 Wasn't there a guy rebuilding rocker assemblies? Need contact info
>  
> Sorry to bomb the list but I couldn't figure out how to search the  archives
>  
> Thanks Scott
>
>
>   


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Bob Spidell           San Jose, CA            bspidell at comcast.net

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - 
Henry Ford
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