[Healeys] Here's a stumper.

[ATIGHTPROD at aol.com]

I thought the same thing, but for the life of me, I can't see how in the  
hell it could make it in there. I mean I can see up to the cam, but it just  
seems to me that the tensioner would have to be put on and taken off with 
the  front cover off. Maybe I'm wrong.
Steven
 
 
In a message dated 12/19/2015 8:57:31 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
glemon at neb.rr.com writes:

Timing  chain tensioner would be about that size, don't recall the inner 
workings well  enough to know if it could migrate to the pan from the timing 
cover, it should  be rubber, but could have hardened over 60 years.  Mine was 
gone when I  took my motor apart, unless the DPO just hadn't fit one.

Greg  Lemon

---- ATIGHTPROD at aol.com wrote: 
> I've got an early BN1 and  from everything I know, the oil pan has never  
> been off the car.  I find that hard to believe, but I have no record of 
it ever 
>   happening and I have receipts going back to it's first oil change. 
Anyway,  
>  I just took the pan off and found something very interesting,  in the 
> bottom of  the pan and it was in pieces. I took it out,  cleaned it off 
and took 
> some photos  of it to see if anyone  knows what this is. Neither my 
mechanic 
> or I could find   anywhere it was "supposed" to go. I do know I've run 
more 
> than tens  years with  it sitting in the bottom of the pan and never a  
problem.
>     It's about 5" in diameter and in-between  1/8" and  1/4"in thickness. 
> (Piston is from a BN1)  So  what's the wisdom of the  court? What the 
hell is 
> this? Oh and  it's made out of either a very hard plastic  or a bakelight 
like 
>  material. Anybody have a guess? I'd love to hear. 
>      I'm putting everything back together and going to  drive the car, 
don't  
> see any reason not to, but wanted to let you take a look  and  give me 
some 
> thoughts. Thanks in advance.
> Steven  Kingsbury
> BN1 #598
>  
>  
>  
>            
> Upper left, chewed  up  edge, got caught in something. Maybe that's what 
> broke it.  The  remainder of it was chewed up bits in the bottom of the   
pan.
>     
> Pretty thick and very  hard.  Gear teeth marks, from?  Stumper.
> 
>   


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