[Healeys] Why carry spares

[Chris Dimmock]

That's the reason SU designed the double end pump!!!
Hot spare!!!!
;-)
Chris

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> On 17 Mar 2014, at 4:09 pm, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My general experience is the SU pump is a pretty lousy one to keep in the
> boot for a spare... they don't last well if not being used.  Better to
> carry a Facet pump of some kind or another, they will still work if sitting
> in the boot for 5 years....
>
> Glad you got it going though... the one time I had to tow my BJ8 was I had
> an SU for a spare... checked it 24 months beforehand & worked... when I
> needed it?  didn't work.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Richard Kahn
<tahoehealey at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Nice day so we went to the wine country in the Healey. Bought a dozen
>> bottles
>> of wine. On the way home the fuel pump stops (that will sober
>> you up fast).
>> OK, no problem, I carry a spare. Unload the wine from the
>> boot and all the
>> other junk I carry there. Pull out the spare fuel pump
>> from under the
>> battery. Bolt it on and fuel spills from the top AND and
>> bottom gaskets.
>> Remove wheel again, remove fuel pump again and take
>> points from new pump and
>> install on the original pump. So, if I hadn't
>> had the spare, I wouldn't have
>> had parts.
>>
>> While we were on the side of the road, nice people in a 50's Rolls Royce
>> stopped. No help there and they didn't even have any Grey Poupon. A
>> couple in
>> a Sprite came by and waited till we got going and followed us
>> home, some 70
>> miles. Fortunately they live 3 miles away at Lake Tahoe.
>> Small world or
>> what?
>>
>> So now I know I have to repair the previously, professionally rebuilt pump
>> before out trek to Bent OR.