[Healeys] Northern Hemisphere Lucas Demons

[Alan Seigrist]

What happened is he woke up, went to get his Lucas Fire Extinguisher and
let the smoke out of it.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:13 PM, I Erbs <eyera3000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds like quite a dream . What really happened when you woke up?
>
> Mr. Ira Erbs
> On Jun 3, 2015 8:16 PM, "J. Armour" <sebring3000 at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> Down –Under in the land of OZ I purchased my first BN.4 in 1966 and drove
>> it every day. Sold it for a home deposit, purchased another BN.4 and drove
>> it every day.Then went crazy and purchased a car that had been hammered
>> around Sebring for 12 hours and not having learnt my lessonI purchased
>> another Healey that did three LeMans 24 hour and two Sebring 12 hour races
>> all fitted with Lucas stuff and they have never stopped. What is going on?
>> Maybe it is time to identify the reliable repair / retailer outlets ( and
>> there are many about from the input I see on the list ) and pay the price
>> they have learnt from experience to select the better product.
>> On another occasion I was tuning the BN.4 and it only had 4 spark plugs
>> in the head. I was lazy and turned the engine on the starter to check the
>> valve clearance and bless my soul the old Lucas and SU system started the
>> engine with two cylinders pumping air and unburnt fuel
>> When I purchased the second BN.4 it had been freshly serviced by the not
>> so well informed ex-owner working at a service station. Two weeks later the
>> car had been performing well but then would not start. It turned out the
>> good old Lucas system had fried the two stroke lawn mower spark plugs the
>> before mentioned service station attendant had fitted!
>>
>> I even drove a the 3000 home 90 km with the rotor button held together
>> with a piece of electrial tape.  Good old reliable Joseph Lucas.
>>
>> Joe
>>
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