[Healeys] Starting a BJ8

[Bob Spidell]

Starting to see a pattern here: original bushes need pre-oiling, which can be forgotten or 'overlooked' by sloppy mechanics; smart guy gets idea to pre-oil bushes and comes up with clever name ('Oilite'), and fortunes get made. 

I posted this to the Forum, but don't recall if I posted it here (paraphrased): I dutifully added oil to the oiling port on a Lucas generator for years. I was going to install new bearings and brushes to my generator as preventative maintenance, but was aghast to see when I disassembled the unit that the field coil insulation--indeed, the whole inside of the generator--had gotten oil-soaked. Because a failed generator can strand you--and they're too cumbersome and expensive to carry a spare--I opted to have the generator rebuilt by a 'pro,' but as I perused the drawing of the generator I saw that there should have been a felt disc between the hole and the bush, and mine was missing so I was dutifully dumping oil into an electrical device for years. It made an unholy mess, but the generator hung in there for 120K miles or so. 

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Original Lucas bushes do not have lubricant and won't last very long 
without it. 

The attached .pdf is a simple method of oiling them which takes less 
than a minute and requires only a pair of opposable thumbs. 

Andy. 

On 12/24/16, Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net> wrote: 
> All this talk about adding oil to "Oilite" bushings, I would like to convey 
> info that John at Sports N Classics sent me in response to a question of oil 
> in "Oilite" bearings of sintered bronze. Sports N Classics is where I 
> bought the pilot bushing for the end of the crank shaft from. 
> 
> 
> "Quote": 
> Mike 
> We have never found it necessary to add additional oil to an Oilite bushing. 
> We have been supplying replacement parts for Healey's since the early 1970's 
> and have never had an issue with quality parts. Whenever when we restore 
> Healey's we use as many NOS parts as possible. Over the past 15 years there 
> has been an influx of inferior reproductions making it more difficult. Since 
> we us many of the parts we sell we have been able to eliminate inferior 
> parts. 
> Hope this helps you out 
> John"End Quote" 
t.net 


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