[Healeys] Change in 3000 block casting

David Lodge emmgeeteecee at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Mar 2 19:46:15 MST 2013


Does that translate as a change in the sump capacity?  Just asking.

Regards,
Lodge, BJ8, Vancouver.

--- On Sat, 2/3/13, BJ8 Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com>
wrote:

> From: BJ8 Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Change
in 3000 block casting
> To: "'Forum Healeys'" <Healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date:
Saturday, 2 March, 2013, 22:00
> Per the BMC parts manual, BJ8 engine
>
29K/H101 - 29K/H278 used block P/N
> 68G265.  There is a note: "W.S.E. [When
Stock
> Exhausted] use 68G275 together
> with one off oil level indicator
12B771."  Oil level
> indicator 12B771 is
> longer than the one used
previously.
> Block P/N 68G275 is shown as applicable to engine 29K/H279
> and
on.
> 
> The above refers to non-French spec engines, and I would
> interpret
the
> information as saying that the dipstick change occurred with
> engine
>
29K/H279. 
> 
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC  USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
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> On Behalf Of
josef-eckert at t-online.de
> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 3:25 PM
> To: Forum
Healeys
> Subject: [Healeys] Change in 3000 block casting
> 
> The casting of
the 3000 engine block was changed as far as I
> know with the
> 29K-engine.
With the change the dipstick moved further to
> the front of the
> engine. Did
this change happen with the first 29K-engine or
> during
> production of the
BJ8s or even earlier? Who knows. 
> 
>     Josef Eckert 
> 
>    
Konigswinter/Germany
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