[Healeys] Cam shoe rod sticking

[John Vrugtman]

The leather he is referring to, is the small roller on the end of the 
shoe portion of the
brass cam shaft, which rides on a lever of the jet housing, raising and 
lowering the jet.
Pauls fix is to replace that piece of leather with a brass replacement.  
Very clever.
Item 26 of page MD7 of the parts list.

John
64/66 BJ8s

On 11/21/2011 8:05 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> Sure would like to see some photos ... I can't visualize where the 
> leather goes.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On 11/21/2011 4:41 PM, edic at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
>> Bob Johnson, Steve Byers and David Porter:
>> Last Saturday, 19 Nov., the Tampa Bay Austin Healey Club had a Tech 
>> Session
>> at Paul Tsikuiss shop, Tsikuiss Classics, Lakeland Florida. Paul is a
>> charter member of our club and has been restoring cars for 31 years.
>> Our tech session was about carburetors.
>>   Paul asked the BJ8 owners if they had to place one hand on the dash 
>> before
>> pulling the choke cable, and if we had return springs installed. Of 
>> course
>> we all answered that we did. He showed us why that is.
>> There is a leather piece that the cam sits on and when it is new it 
>> rotates,
>> but after years of heat and cold, water and oil and whatever, it becomes
>> hard and the cam cannot rotate on it, so consequently the choke lever 
>> does
>> not return to it resting place without the help of a spring. What 
>> Paul did
>> to correct that problem was to: 1. Remove the brass cam shaft and 
>> polish it
>> 2. Remove the leather piece and install a piece of brass tubing, he 
>> used an
>> old throttle shaft cut to fit the opening and secured it with a nail, 
>> head
>> on one side and peened on the other. If you dont have a throttle 
>> shaft I
>> believe he said a 5/16 brass tube cut to size would work. Each of us 
>> got to
>> hold the carb he had set up and it worked perfectly, no springs will be
>> needed. Also, when he reinserted the cam shaft he lubricated it with
>> Dri-Slide. This is graphite in a liquid that once applied, the liquid
>> evaporates and the graphite stays, and no dirt will stick to it. This
>> Dri-Slide can be bought at gun shops. I hope I explained it well enough
>> because I am going to do it myself and I plan to do mine in the near 
>> future.
>> Also, Paul showed us Nash Healey #1 that he had just finished 
>> restoring and
>> it was magnificent.
>>
>> Mel Brunet
>> HBJ8L/39749
>> Land O Lakes, FL