[Healeys] Mind if I Rant?

[Michael Salter]

Mike you are pretty well "on the money" there.
I have encountered endless problems with repop parts. I fail to understand
why manufacturers have so much difficulty getting things right.
My suspicion is that we are all partly to blame for accepting the junk and
trying to make it work.
I will go to untold lengths to purchase a good used part any time as so
doing invariably saves me hours and hours of frustration...

I feel your pain.

M

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 4:19 PM Mike MacLean, <rrengineer.mike at att.net> wrote:

> I am beginning to understand what a restorer friend of mine once told me.
> He said he could restore three BJ8 cars in the time it took to do a 100.
> Virtually no parts I have bought from the usual suspects for my BN2 are
> easy to install.  Nothing fits like it was made for the car.  This morning
> I made an attempt to bolt up the two bump stop boxes over the rear axle.
> None of the holes in the part lined up with the holes in the body above the
> rear axle.  I will have to auger out at least three of the holes in the
> bump stop box to get all four bolts in.  This car is fighting me every step
> of the way.  I guess it's like my restorer friend who has since passed told
> me when he sold me that rolling frame with a few body panels on it, "Go
> ahead buy the car, it will give you a reason to live".  I am beginning to
> understand what he meant.  Half the time I am pulling my hair out and
> inventing new curse words, but I go out to that garage everyday and try to
> accomplish something on the car, even if I end up beating my head against
> the wall, I keep coming back.  Rant over.
> Mike MacLean
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