[Healeys] off by 3/16"

[Len and/or Marge Hartnett]

Don Day has a problem with his throttle linkage.  He said he installed the 
throttle shaft into the fire wall and then into the throttle bracket that 
mounts to the intake manifold.  His problem was the holes don't line up with 
holes in the intake manifold.  They were off by 3/16".  After contacting him 
and clarifying his problem, I found that the throttle linkages on our BJ8s 
are different.  On his car, BJ8L42122, the throttle shaft is retained in the 
nylon bracket/bearing by two circlips to control fore and aft movement. 
This is preventing him from matching the holes in the nylon bracket and/or 
the bracket bolted to the manifold.

My BJ8, HBJ8L39031, has only one circlip which is on the end of the shaft 
although there are two grooves in the shaft.  On the other side of the nylon 
bracket is a spacer about an inch long that is between the nylon bracket and 
the lever that connects the control rod to the carburetors thus preventing 
fore and aft movement.  I suggested that replacing the rearward circlip with 
an appropriate length spacer would give him the adjustment that he needed to 
move the nylon bracket  back 3/16".

Moss shows the two circlips in their catalog - no spacer.  Do I have an an 
odd  ball installation or was there a change in design during production? 
Does anyone else have the spacer on their BJ8?

(The Other) Len
Vacaville, CA, USA
1967 AH 3000 MkIII, HBJ8L39031