[Healeys] 1959 100-6 Healey

[I Erbs]

You'll need to check for vacuum leaks or adjust carbs or both.
They all leak a bit. Keeps them from getting rustythe only leather gasket
is between oil se Der and hard line.
Join a local Healey or British car club and get advice on a good mechanic.
Many folks are traveling to Healey meets and the list should be slow.

Ira Erbs
Portland, OR
please excuse typos. Sent from my phone
On Jun 23, 2013 11:09 AM, "Bob Spidell" <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:

> I'll take a stab, but there are more accomplished mechanical types on the
> list.
>
> Comments below.
>
>
>
> On 6/22/2013 6:16 PM, Chris Scholz wrote:
>
>> Hello, I am new to this list.  Just purchased a 1959 austin healey 100-6
>> which
>> has a newly rebuilt engine, and underwent a full restoration in 1990.  I
>> have
>> some questions on things I found wrong on the car:
>>
>> 1.  The car runs better with choke half out, high idle.  I put the choke
>> in,
>> and it eventually stalls.  Tonight, it may have flooded, or vapor locked
>> because I cannot get it restarted.  I will let it sit for a couple hours.
>>  Is
>> this a simple carb tune-up issue?
>>
>
> The first half of the choke travel should only open the throttles, the
> second half should lower the jets inducing a richer mixture. Sounds like
> your throttles are not set properly.
>
>>
>> 2.  The clutch makes a howling noise intermittently when fully engaged,
>> and it
>> is hard to shift into gear--this in intermittent.  It is almost like the
>> hydraulic fluid may be low, so the clutch is not fully disengaging.  But
>> why
>> is it so intermittent?
>>
>
> Could be hydraulic fluid level, air in the line, etc.  Sometimes, things
> are intermittent even thought they logically seem like they shouldn't be.
>  Also, the throwout 'bearing' is a carbon disk, if it wasn't replaced at
> engine rebuild--it should have been--you may be getting metal-to-metal
> contact between the 'bearing' housing and the clutch actuating disk.
>
>>
>> 3.  This newly rebuilt engine has only a few hundred miles on it--I have
>> the
>> build sheet from the specialty British shop that did the work.  But the
>> car
>> has some mild oil leaks.  The seller says this is normal bbutecause of the
>> leather gaskets--I noticed the biggest leak is on the passenger side,
>> where
>> the distributor assembly bolts to the block.  Is it normal for all
>> Healeys to
>> leak some oil?
>>
>
> I don't know of any 'leather' gaskets on a Healey engine.  The front seal
> is a 'rope' type, the rear main has a 'reverse Archimedes' scroll that is
> supposed to channel oil back into the engine (if sort-of works).   If your
> rebuilder told you there are leather gaskets I'd be questioning his
> knowledge and/or truthiness (but, there may, if fact, be leather gaskets
> somewhere but I can't recall one).
>
>>
>> The car is in great shape, but I don't feel comfortable driving it
>> because of
>> the worry it may quit or flood or vapor lock, or something.
>>
>> Looking forward to your opinions.
>>
>> Chris in Iowa.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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