[Healeys] Flame Arrestor for BN4 Vacuum Line?

[Chris Dimmock]

Hi Rich,
I've seen these on Austin/ Morris sedans of the mid 1950's, like A30's and 6
cyl A90/ A95's
Assuming the arrestor you have is on a vacuum line attached to a distributor,
does the distributor have a 100/6 part number on it, or is it from a sedan?
If you tell me the Lucas part number, I can look it up.
DM6 40442 is typically sedan
DM6 40532 / 40581 is typically 100/6
Not a definitive list of numbers...

I.E Maybe you have a sedan distributor with vac hose and spark arrestor?

Best
Chris

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On 30/03/2012, at 11:53 PM, "Rich Chrysler" <richchrysler at quickclic.net>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm in the process of building a very early Longbridge BN4, in fact it's
> consecutive Body number 326, built 25 October, 1956.
>
> There were a lot of pieces missing from this car when I found it so I've
> been hunting down many of the missing parts. I have been lead to believe
> that the early cars were fitted with a small "flame arrestor", a bulb
shaped
> piece in the vacuum line between inlet manifold and distributor vacuum
unit.
> To see what this unit looks like, refer to Moss MGA listings Part Number
> 163-620.
>
> I cannot find any record of this item in even the earliest BN4 Spare parts
> book, nor any mention of it in any of the workshop manuals.