[Healeys] overdrive switches - BN1

WILLIAM B LAWRENCE ynotink at msn.com
Tue Jan 26 20:45:38 MST 2010


Wait a minute, that was 2002...
Bill Lawrence

> From: ynotink at msn.com
> To: scvc70 at epix.net; healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:18:13 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] overdrive switches - BN1
>
> I bought a generic single pole single throw toggle switch at Ace Hardware
for
> about $3.50 (in i992). It is indistinguishable from the OEM switch it
> replaced.
> Bill Lawrence
>
> > From: scvc70 at epix.net
> > To: healeys at autox.team.net
> > Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:01:29 -0500
> > Subject: [Healeys] overdrive switches - BN1
> >
> > I've searched the list archives, and couldn't find anything addressing my
> > current situation.
> >
> > I've begun sorting out the boxful of electrical bits removed from my BN1,
> and
> > apparently one/more DPOs dealt with electrical problems by--among other
> > things--replacing the original O/D dash switch with a generic U.S.-made
> > single-pole type, as well as installing what appears to be a BJ8 throttle
> > switch (it looks exactly like the picture of that item in the Moss
> catalog).
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1)  why is the BN1 dash switch (in the Moss cat.) 10 times as expensive
as
> the
> > later one?  And, since I have no intention of spending that much money
for
> any
> > switch, would an ordinary single-pole switch work here?
> > 2)  can the BJ8 throttle switch be used on the 3-speed gearboxbox's O/D?
> If
> > so, how is that done?  When we dismantled the car, it was hooked to the
> > throttle linkage--but I have no idea whether the set-up ever worked, as I
> > never spoke to its last owner and don't know where he lives (he'd left
the
> car
> > in his father's garage in 1976 when he moved away; father died in 1996,
and
> > the executors told me son said to get rid of the car as he was no longer
> > interested in it--thus I am now the keeper of "Cinderella," the
garage-sale
> > Healey....)
> >
> > Apparently the gearbox itself wasn't disturbed, as it and the engine were
> > uniformly coated with a half-inch of black, greasy dirt.  (I haven't yet
> > looked the gearbox itself over.)
> >
> > As always, thanks in advance!
> >
> > Sarah Carr
> > BN1 in PA
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