[Healeys] Here's a stumper.

[Larry Varley]

Greg is on the money, its the rubber timing chain pensioner gone hard 
and broken up.
Cheers
Larry Varley

On 20/12/2015 2:03 PM, 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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