[Healeys] Cam shoe rod sticking

[David Porter]

OMG! If you are referring to the shaft that acts on the jet (Housing
assembly) and if that, which I've never had reason to take apart in over 45
years due to wear has got to take the award for finding the most obscure
leather bushing in automotive history! I've been dumping them in the most
caustic carb cleaner brews for years and have never noticed any leather??
..or ill effects from doing so. What on earth caused the one Mel saw
refurbished to fail? That has to be a story in and of itself
dp

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-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of John Vrugtman
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 6:40 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Cam shoe rod sticking

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
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