[Healeys] 100-6 barn find part 1

Larry Varley varley at cosmos.net.au
Mon Mar 28 00:53:49 MDT 2016


I'm quite sure Dave knows exactly what he is buying into so the 
following is a little tongue in cheek, no offense.
Barn Find? In dry storage since the sixties? Oh dear! This will end up a 
total restoration. First step drain the oil from engine, gearbox and 
diff. It will dollop out like liquid tar and take a week to drain. This 
gets you thinking the drive train will be a mess inside so you need to 
pull it all out and inspect it. Well you hope everything above the 
sludge line isn't red rusty. If your lucky it isn't, but all of the 
seals have dried out so it all has to come apart. So then you find that 
this is in fact a second hand sports car that has been used and abused 
and its all pretty tired so you recondition everything including the 
engine which has seized rings from sitting so long, and possibly seized 
pistons, which you knock out with a sledge hammer. Meanwhile you 
recondition the gearbox and overdrive and replace diff axle bearings and 
seals. Sounds easy doesn't it. Naturally you would also replace the 
clutch plate and have the pressure plate checked. So your not going to 
put all of these assemblies back into the car car without repainting 
them all are you. However while you have been crawling around under the 
car you have noticed a little rust in the body / chassis 
unit..............see part 2
Larry Varley
On 28/03/2016 1:02 AM, David Porter wrote:
> readers..
> I'm thinking about pulling the trigger on the purchase of a BN4 (BN 4L 
> 0 40532) to be precise. It was involved in a front end hit, pushed 
> into dry storage since the sixty's. It has been picked over a bit.
>  I know that these are the least loved by us, but given the decreasing 
> number of barn finds available I look to the collective wisdom  for 
> the push to buy or pass it up.. What say you..
> Dave



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