[Healeys] Angle drive screw

Perry healeyguy at aol.com
Wed Jul 22 14:16:01 MDT 2020


Steve/Listers
When we left Hawaii nearly ten years ago, I went through a purge of used damaged parts or parts that were not worth the effort. At that time I had a box of used angle drives, probably 20-25, maybe more and not one was usable.  Either the cover plate was missing, the gears were chewed up or some other self destruction issue. There were a lot of the units that were totally dry inside. Even had on that looked like it had melted. I never figured that one out.
The best of the bits were gathered up and the rest were tossed.  As it turned out there was lots of room in the shipping containers and those little parts would have fit easily. Still shipped 19,000 pounds of parts including a hundred shock cores and other seemingly eternal Austin Healey parts like brake drums, a monumental amount of brake shoes and many suspension bits, but that is a different story.  
Perhaps at what ever interval the gearbox/OD cover is removed for any maintenance that it would be a good idea to squeeze a little bit of grease into the unit. I guess it would be good to lube your speedo cable at the same time. Don’t overdo it as too much grease will produce a negative outcome. 😊
P

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From: Max Byers via Healeys
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 2:15 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Angle drive screw

Since the location of the screw on the angle drives for BJ7s and BJ8s makes it quite an operation to use it for lubrication purposes, I conclude that the screw is just there for when the same drive is used on other vehicles with better access.    I bet very few BJ7/BJ8 owners have ever lubricated the angle drive, so it must not be critical.
 
Thanks to all for the responses.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
AHCA Delegate at Large
Havelock, NC  USA

From: Michael MacLean [mailto:rrengineer.mike at att.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:44 PM
To: Jean Caron; Jean Caron via Healeys; Max Byers; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Angle drive screw

Same kind of lube point screw in OEM gear reduction drives for Bugeye speedos.  Just like everything else on these cars, you can't hurt it by lubing the crap out of anything that moves.
Mike MacLean
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On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:40 AM, Jean Caron via Healeys
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