[Healeys] Petrol Pump

[J Armour]

I also regularly cleaned my S.U. & Lucas points with emery or sand paper
but then a very knowledgeable electrical person advised that this method
left foreign particles embedded in the face of the points and was
detrimental to the life of the points. He suggested a coarse cloth or a
points file and then clean wipe the face of the points.Another admission,
I used to sit in the gutter late at night before heading off home from my
girlfriends place ( her mother did not like the noisy Healey parked out
the front of her house and neighbours ) and removed the no.4 spark plug
that had oiled up from city driving and cleaned the gunk out with a
perfect tool that I had found in the gutter, a thin spring steel wire from
a street sweeper brush. That was 40 years ago and I still carry one with
me.
I find it very interesting the difference between what will do based on
what grandad had at his disposal and what the much maligned Mr Joseph
Lucas advised based on his years of research and experience. Now if all
those owner- operators of Healeys ( or anything British ) will consult
their manuals for such a basic procedure we would all be better/quicker
off.
Question, why do we all want replicas of those fabulous 'Works Healeys'
when they are packed full of Lucas stuff fitted with points!!!

A late thought, often the points in a little used unit suffer more from
vertigree on the faces and therefore do not require a heavy abrasive tool

Right now I will be off to bed.
Joe

On 13/05/14 11:15 PM, "BJ8Healeys" <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:

>Tim, I once cleaned the points of the fuel pump in a Sunbeam Tiger with
>the
>sandpaper I was lucky enough to find on an empty matchbook by the side of
>the road.  I keep a strip of very fine sandpaper in my toolkit to do the
>job
>now (it would also work with the distributor points), although I have a
>backup fuel pump.  No lubricant is necessary.
>
>Steve Byers
>HBJ8L/36666
>BJ8 Registry 
>AHCA Delegate at Large
>Havelock, NC USA