[Healeys] removing the 8-way flasher box

[Jean Caron]

Bob,

No these boxes are not sealed, they have three prongs, two at one end and one at the other that hold the cover in place. As Bruce Steele, I had done an article on these a while ago for Healey Marque, and I have done about a dozen of these and they are still working well and the outside liiks original.


Jean


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From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
Sent: February 22, 2017 4:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [Healeys] removing the 8-way flasher box


Are these boxes sealed?  We got into ours from a BN2, and had to drill out a couple spot welds.

After installing a new harness, the turn indicators didn't function properly.  'Assuming' the problem was in the relay box, we opened it up only to find out later the harness had a couple wires mislabeled (wrong color/trace).  This really pissed me off as otherwise I had the harness wired 100% correct (not to mention 'violating' an original flasher box).

Bob

On 2/22/2017 8:04 AM, i erbs wrote:
I don't have my air hoses in place yet, so It is a straight shot to the top nuts. My mechanic removed mine and cleaned and adjusted the internal points. It gets rusty in there. So Simon, you might take a look inside once you get it out and I would bet you will find rust and crud in there. Using a multi-meter you should be able to check the contacts.

Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
      _______                                  _______
     (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
         (_________________________)
          BT7 engine and disk brakes

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Bruce Steele <healeybruce at roadrunner.com<mailto:healeybruce at roadrunner.com>> wrote:
Simon,  I’ve had mine out twice, most recently last weekend when I replaced it while the engine is out for a rebuild (it was a lot easier to sit in the engine bay than reach over!).  Using a long thin flat blade screwdriver, loosen the terminals one at a time.  I was perhaps fortunate that my wires are basically “trained” to lay in order so keeping them straight was not a problem, but if in doubt label them first.  Ira’s right—seeing the color codes can be tricky unless everything is really clean!    Remove the bottom screw last.  Removing the top 2 screws is the problem as they are blocked by the air trunking.  If there is no way to get to them from the front, and there probably isn’t, you can drill them out through the captive nuts in the wheel well.  Yes, that ruins the nuts, but there is an easy solution to that.  Before reinstalling the relay unit, put 2 U-type spring clip speed nuts on the flange over the outboard holes.  Install the bottom machine screw to finger tight to hold the unit in place, then use 2 sheet metal screws through the drilled out nuts to secure the top.  Or 1 screw—I’m pretty sure 3 screws in that is overkill.  You may have to move the unit slightly side to side to line up the holes, but it will work fine and is much easier than trying to go in from the front.

Bruce Steele
Brea, CA
1960 BN7

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net<mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net>] On Behalf Of i erbs
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 9:19 AM
To: Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk<mailto:simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk>>
Cc: Pierre Henri Claret <yosmovies at hotmail.fr<mailto:yosmovies at hotmail.fr>>; Healey List <healeys at autox.team.net<mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] removing the 8-way flasher box

try using a 1/4 drive ratchet and extension with a knuckle in between the extensions
I would mark the wires in case the color coding is hard to read.

Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
      _______                                  _______
     (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
         (_________________________)
          BT7 engine and disk brakes

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk<mailto:simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk>> wrote:
My car is RHD so accessing that wretched thing is easy enough by Healey standards. Nothing much above it. However it seems that my nephew may have to remove his from his LHD ’64 BJ8. So the brake fluid reservoir is in the way, plus its pipework and the steering column…..or is that a bit lower?
Anyhow, can one get the 8-way box out without a major kerfuffle or what does one have to do? Just grow tiny treble jointed wrists and elbows? The usual in fact….
Thanks,
Simon

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