[Healeys] Shop Info

Roland Wilhelmy rwil at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jan 20 22:48:34 MST 2010


Aha!  You have uncovered one of the secrets of the Austin Healey Club of San Diego :-)
He can refill your temp bulb with ether, repair or replace the tube that you cut to get that darned sensor out of the head/radiator.  I hear he does speedos, too.

-Roland



----- Original Message ----
> From: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
> To: healeylist <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wed, January 20, 2010 5:37:03 PM
> Subject: [Healeys] Shop Info
> 
> I'm on a mailing list from a guy that owns an Austin-Healey and a winery in 
> Napa.  His latest mailing had the following info:
> 
> 
> " Healey running hot? We've all heard that for as long as we have had these 
> wonderful cars! The first thing to do is check the temperature gauge for 
> accuracy. How many do that? Well, I finally did and guess what? Yeah, the gauge 
> was reading about 15-20 degree hot! So now what?
> 
> Wanting to keep the original, I set out to get the gauge rebuilt. And here is 
> what I found out. There is a small, one-man shop located in San Diego, Ca., 
> called Foreign Speedo (619-298-5278). No fax machine, no computer, no web site 
> and not even an answering machine! They can rebuild it, but it's a  "I hope 
> you're not in a hurry for this" type of place. We all get the picture.
> 
> Well, I sent the gauge in. They refurbished the gauge, rebuilt the whole thing, 
> both water temp and oil pressure, and it is beautiful and dead-on. And the price 
> was "more than reasonable." These shops are a dying breed. So file this info and 
> in the future, if your Healey is running Hot...... "


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