[Healeys] The little rubber strap

Jim Lesher cleona44 at hotmail.com
Fri Jun 3 11:25:09 MDT 2011


Barrie - thanks for the photo. Interesting per Norm's line drawing, the word
JOHNBULL is used instead of Dunlop. But drawing is exactly the same the
photo.
lot's of Healey trivia


> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:58:34 -0400
> To: cleona44 at hotmail.com; richchrysler at quickclic.net; gmandas at yahoo.com;
healeys at autox.team.net; editorgary at aol.com
> From: barrie at look.ca
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
>
>
> Hello folks,
>
> Attached is my photos of the Dunlop strap - It was obviously used
> elsewhere - but where?? Motorbikes, bicycles, invalid chairs ???
>
>
>
>
> At 11:28 AM 6/3/2011, Jim Lesher wrote:
> >Rich - where do you see this photo of the strap in the Current Guidelines?
I
> >don't see any photo of this little rubber strap in Section III - Engine
> >Compartment in my copy of the Guidelines, there is 1 photo in my copy which
is
> >Figure III-10 - which shows an aluminum strap for the main wiring harness.
> >thanks for your clarification.
> >
> >To see what this little rubber strap looks like just go to p 16 of
> >Austin-Healey Magazine, March 1994 - Norm Nock submitted an article with 2
> >line drawings of 2 separate rubber straps
> >I can scan the article and send it to John Sims for posting on his site or
> >just send me your request.
> >jim lesher
> >
> >
> > > From: richchrysler at quickclic.net
> > > To: gmandas at yahoo.com; healeys at autox.team.net; Editorgary at aol.com
> > > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:23:51 -0400
> > > Subject: Re: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> > >
> > > It's in the Concours Guidelines photo section.
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net
> >[mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> > > On Behalf Of Greg Mandas
> > > Sent: 2011-06-02 11:07
> > > To: healeys at autox.team.net; Editorgary at aol.com
> > > Subject: Re: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> > >
> > > Could we get a picture?
> > >
> > > --- On Thu, 6/2/11, Editorgary at aol.com
> > > <Editorgary at aol.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Editorgary at aol.com <Editorgary at aol.com>
> > > >
> > > Subject: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> > > > To: healeys at autox.team.net
> > > >
> > > Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011, 12:55 PM
> > > > In a message dated 6/2/11 9:46:49 AM,
> > > > healeys-request at autox.team.net
> > > > writes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > It is a shy little rubber
> > > strap about 4 inches
> > > > long. It went
> > > > > strapped that wire wrapped lead from
> > > engine to temp
> > > > gauge in the dash
> > > > > to the heater hose. I think they were
> > > discarded
> > > > rapidly when engines
> > > > > were serviced or repaired. A long time
> > > ago I sent it
> > > > to Roger Moment
> > > > > who had duplicates made as he said it was
> > > a really
> > > > rare bird. What
> > > > > is amazing is that it has a patent !!!!!
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > When I first saw that strap, I thought it looked familiar
> > > > from my
> > > childhood
> > > > spending my days in the back of my dad's bicycle shop, and
> > > > later
> > > Norman
> > > > Nock confirmed it, not from his past car experience but
> > > > from having
> > > been a
> > > > cyclist all his life. We both remembered first seeing that
> > > > strap on
> > > Humber and
> > > > Raleigh bicycles, holding the rear handbrake cable to the
> > > > frame
> > > of the
> > > > bicycle. I'm betting that when they first encountered the
> > > > problem
> > > of having
> > > > the
> > > > temp sensor cable fouling whatever it might foul in the
> > > >
> > > engine compartment,
> > > > Roger Menadue went over to his bicycle and pulled the
> > > strap
> > > > off of it,
> > > > determined that it would work, and then they told BMC to
> > > > order a couple of
> > > > thousand
> > > > from whomever supplied them to Humber and
> > > Raleigh.
> > > > Gary
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> Barrie
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