[Healeys] Very helpful Lucas Reference has been made available to you (for free!)

[MGTD51]

Wonderful - thanks for sharing.

Larry Swift

Mirek Sharp wrote:
> Many, many thanks for your efforts Allan - I will look at it later but 
> it sounds really interesting.
>
> Should we all wear white shop coats and skinny ties when we read it? 
> (grins).
>
> Mirek
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut at gmail.com>
> To: "Healey" <Healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:52 PM
> Subject: [Healeys] Very helpful Lucas Reference has been made 
> available to you (for free!)
>
>
>> All -
>>
>> One of my biggest complaints about the shop & parts manuals for our 
>> cars is
>> they do not provide sufficient detail for understanding the theory and
>> operation of Lucas equipment and circuitry.  Imagine, then, that I 
>> have been
>> able to come into ownership of a 1955 edition of something called:
>>
>> "Lucas Overseas Technical Correspondence Course"
>>
>> This course is over 200 pages long and is complete with diagrams, 
>> pictures
>> and plain English procedures.
>>
>> Rather than hoarding it and never sharing it, I have decided to make the
>> whole course available to all of you.  This course is VERY helpful, 
>> it has
>> excellent step by step procedures for diagnosing faults with 
>> everything from
>> horns, control heads, wipers, starters to OD circuitry and equipment.
>> Having looked at it, all of the sections are very useful, and the OD
>> electrics section is particularly useful to help owners understand 
>> what all
>> the various relays and switches do (esp. for 100 owners).  The 
>> distributor,
>> horns, wiper, lighting and wiring sections are also exceptionally 
>> useful as
>> well.
>>
>> This will be very helpful for the Austin Healey owner as well as 
>> those of
>> you who own 50's and pre-50's cars equipped with Lucas smokelectrics.
>>
>> Jokes aside the whole set has been listed on John Sim's website for your
>> use.  It requires Adobe Reader 8.0 or later to view properly.
>>
>> http://www.healey6.com/bulletin.htm
>>
>> Note that Sections 8 is incomplete (missing pages 30-60) and Section 
>> 9 is
>> missing, these will probably be loaded within the day.  Apologies in 
>> advance
>> for Section 9, it had some major water damage and I had to do my own
>> mini-version of a Dead Sea scroll restoration to put it together for 
>> you.
>>
>> Thank you John for hosting this.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>> '52 A90
>> '53 BN1
>> '64 BJ8
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