[Healeys] Water pump lubrication. Dynamo lubrication.

[Bob Spidell]

The aftermarket pumps have sealed bearings, but still have an (untapped) boss for the oil fitting. If you don't have an oil fitting, you should have sealed bearings. 

I keep a can of sewing machine oil on trips and pump the oiling hole full every few hundred miles. 


bs 

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Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk> 
To: healeys at autox.team.net 
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:32:21 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [Healeys] Water pump lubrication. Dynamo lubrication. 

Am I correct in thinking that not all the 3000s' water pumps need 
lubrication? I have a Mk II BT7 but couldn't say if it's pump is original. I 
have to add that I cannot find/see the grease/oil plug, but it may be 
typically and obscurely hidden. 

Likewise, I take it that the dynamo's 3 drops of SAE 30 go through the hole 
at the end of the dynamo nearest the firewall?? It's just that I don't seem 
able to get oil in, even using a hypodermic! 
Simon 
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