[Healeys] Sprite Lovers in Las Vegas

Charlie Baldwin mgcharlie at comcast.net
Tue Apr 6 08:24:03 MDT 2010


The shot of the crankshaft on the wall was a bit confusing because they 
then panned to the engine still sitting in the car.  I took it to be 
some old crank from another engine that he had to show the pawn guy what 
a crankshaft looked like.

Bob Spidell wrote:
> Anybody see the same show I did?
>
> The 'average garage mechanic' was a restoration specialist ('Rusty 
> Nuts Rods and Customs').  They said a main bearing was spun, pointed 
> to the crankshaft hanging on the wall and said the journals in the 
> crank were shot (probably the major expense to rebuild the engine).
>
> They left it at 'I don't know what to do with this car.'  I bet they 
> follow up on it in a later episode (they made a big deal out of the 
> father/son conflict).
>
> bs
>
>
> Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> Good point.   They certainly didn't get into any details that would 
>> back up
>> his findings except that it
>> was making a noise.   That's TV drama for ya.    We'll probably never 
>> here the
>> ending to the story
>> cause so far they haven't continued one episode into another one.
>>
>> Maybe it was just a dramatic ,  made for TV episode anyway.    That 
>> car looked
>> like it had a total
>> restoration done on it so its hard to believe that someone didn't 
>> complete the
>> job with a decent engine
>> redo.
>>
>> Well ,  thats enough of that.  I now return you to your regularly 
>> scheduled
>> Healey Stuff.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>>   They said it had spun a main bearing. How would an average garage 
>> mechanic
>> be able to know that? Apparently he started and drove it. Would a 
>> compression
>> test tell you?
>>
>>   Phil
>>
>>
>>   
>
>
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