[Healeys] What is it?

[Charlie Schott]

As I'm currently restoring a 1960 BT7 that I bought completely dissambled, I 
found that it had a thermostat in the head for the carb starting solenoid. 
It also had a hole in the dash for a choke cable. After I had the carbs 
rebuilt and I rebuilt the dash with the choke cable, I realized that the two 
were not compatible. From comments that I read from this group, I realized 
that the thermostat was very unreliable. Therefore, I made a plate to block 
off the solenoid hole in the head and then I connected the choke cable to an 
on-off toggle switch that sends 12 volts to the starter solenoid when the 
choke cable is pulled out. The dash looks original and I'm utilizing the 
starter solenoid for cold starts.

Regards,

Charlie Schott

-----Original Message----- 
From: rkeysor
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:27 PM
To: BJ8Healeys ; 'healeys'
Subject: Re: [Healeys] What is it?

I'm sure the correct answer is that the triangular piece on the head near 
the thermostat housing was associated with the thermal starting carb Healey 
used briefly, April to November, 1959.  Interestingly, that feature is 
missing on my '60 BN7--about which Steve knows a great deal.  However, the 
car does have the thermal carb intake manifold, which had three internally 
siamized ports in the top for the hoses from the starting carb that fed gas 
to the engine.  These caused me a lot of puzzlement after I bought my car, 
but eventually someone led me to an eBay ad for a manifold with this system.


On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:32 PM, BJ8Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:



Actually, Bob, it is the front shroud that isnbt bcorrectb on this car.
The turn signal/parking light/taillight configuration was a bbodyb
feature.  The change point for the dual lights in front and the large amber
turn signal at the rear was body number 76138 (for cars that were not going 
to
Sweden or Germany).  This car has body 75505, so it should have the single
large clear plastic lens of the early Phase 2 cars in front.



The byearb of a Healey isnbt as significant as what we are used to with
American cars because the cars werenbt built by bmodel yearb, so  it  is
misleading to use the byearb as the guide for what is a correct
configuration, especially for cars that were built near the change points.



All that said, I have seen enough cars with configuration anomalies that I
have begun to believe that many BJ8s left the factory with bincorrectb
features and it is difficult to be 100% sure of what is original and what is
not.



Steve Byers

HBJ8L/36666

BJ8 Registry

AHCA Delegate at Large

Havelock, NC  USA






From: Bob Spidell [mailto:bspidell at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:37 PM
To: Michael Salter
Cc: BJ8Healeys; healeys
Subject: Re: [Healeys] What is it?



Also, rear shroud doesn't look correct (believe a '66 should have the amber
turn signals of a Phase 2, no?).



Given that and what Michael says, it appears this car may have been pieced
together.



Bob



  _____





Hi Steve,
Pretty sure that the car has an earlier head on it which was used with the
"thermo carb" cold starting system and the plate is covering the hole in
the head where the "Otter" switch to control the thermo carb was located.



Michael S
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