[Healeys] Catch up

[Mike Sinclair]

I believe that was a LH drive TD.  Same color as I used to own.  Maybe 
it was mine!

Mike

On 3/28/2019 2:39 AM, simon.lachlan at alexarevel.plus.com wrote:
>
> To tie up a few loose ends and acknowledge advice given:-
>
>  1. The Pro-Race damper was not easy to fit but it did go in. Were I
>     to have to do another one, I’d wait until the engine had to come
>     out. One feels that it should go further onto the shaft when it is
>     correctly lined up, but it is what it is.
>  2. LED headlights are very bright and use a lot less energy than
>     halogens. A pair of H4 headlights and a pair of H1 fog/spots don’t
>     make my volts/amp meters twitch where the previous halogens pushed
>     the needle way over to the right. Curious to have lights which
>     make a noise. Little cooling fans.
>  3. The timing light? Well, it was defective. And, sadly, remains
>     defective. Pity, it had been a nice tool. But it was older than
>     I’d thought, ’87, so it had done its time. A replacement works and
>     sorted the timing issues in 10 minutes. (I bought a Gunson
>     Superstrobe. Much more advanced than my poor old Mac, but rather
>     nasty to look at! Chrome, like a small boy’s toy space gun.)
>  4. A Denis Welch oil pump, the “High Capacity” rotor type version,
>     has raised my oil pressure all round. Better than the “gear type”
>     version, origins unknown, that was previously fitted. I’d say that
>     the latter was performing OK, but it typically was less
>     satisfactory for my fairly restrained type of driving.
>
> So, thanks for the help and advice regarding the above.
>
> Finally, we, over here in the UK, had a snippet on the BBC showing 
> Prince Charles at a Classic Car Rally in Cuba. Leaving aside any 
> thoughts or comments as to Charles being in Cuba, it was interesting 
> to see them driving up in an MG (TD?) to a row of cars with a red MGA 
> and a red Big Healey. Don’t know exactly which type, but its grille 
> excluded MkIIs and IIIs. I think she was driving!
>
> Simon
>
>
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