[Healeys] Petrol Pump

[Chris Dimmock]

Read the book.
There are things you do by the side of the road. Late at night, under a street
light. A smooth hard open pore rock is perfect...... :-)
And there are things you do in the comfort of your own garage/ workshop....
Lucas rule 1. File points.  Never sand with anything that will leave a residue
or grit.
File. Lightly. Remove to clean..... Don't add abrasive shit to your soft
points.
And you don't usually need to remove much. It's cleaning.
Best
Chris

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> On 14 May 2014, at 12:21 am, "John Sims" <ahbn6 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I use Sparklers made by Les Leston in London. They are approximately 1/4
> inch wide by two inches long and coated with a very fine grit on both sides
> making it easy to do the contacts. They come packaged in a match book sort
> of thingy. Unfortunately Les apparently died a couple of years ago
according
> to Wikipedia but some of his stuff is still on eBay (not sparklers) I
forget
> where I got them but it was one of the British suppliers.
>
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ
>
> www.healey6.com
>
> On Behalf Of 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