[Healeys] The little rubber strap

[Barrie Robinson]

Richard,

You must not be doing it right.  Just hold the temp coil covered tube 
thing to the heater hose with something (string, tape, etc) and 
fixing the Dunlop strap is relatively easy.



At 11:21 AM 6/4/2011, Richard Kahn wrote:
>No one had commented on what a bitch it is to put that strap on.  I have seen
>several ways that the thermometer tube coil is oriented.  Coil parallel to the
>firewall, or parallel to the engine block.  I think the book orientates it
>along the engine block.
>Rich Kahn
>
> > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:16:50 -0500
> > From: jwbn6hrdtp at gmail.com
> > To: richchrysler at quickclic.net
> > CC: healeys at autox.team.net
> > Subject: Re: [Healeys] The little rubber strap
> >
> > the rubber strap was commonly used for various applications on british
> > motorcycles.
> > cheers,
> > jerry
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Rich Chrysler
><richchrysler at quickclic.net>wrote:
> >
> > > 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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> > --
> > jerry wall  BN6
> > rowlett, tx
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Regards

Barrie
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