[Healeys] 6 cylinder engine detail

[Michael Salter]

Good observation Skip and one that made me go back and look again ..

[image: image.png]
As you can see the sides of one of the 2 odd washers (both are the same)
are absolutely parallel.
It would take someone with a lot of skill to shear the sides off
individually to achieve that degree of accuracy on both washers and really
... would anyone go to that much effort?


[image: image.png]
Additionally the washers have been punched out, not ground or filed to size
as is evident from the shear marks on the sides.

I realize that this is totally insignificant in the scheme of things but
being a very poor sleeper I tend to stay awake at night and think about
these things. :-)

I have found that there is usually a good explanation for these things but
this has me stumped.

Please ... help me get a good night's sleep.

M






On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:28 PM Skip Saunders <tfsbj7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Judging by the curvature of the washers, the five appear to be of the
> original manufactured type.  The two appear to be regular washers that have
> been ground down to fit in the narrow channel.  Do you see the same
> disparity among washers in the oil pan (it too uses those types of narrow
> channel compatible washers I believe.)
> Thanks
> -skip-
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:57 PM Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on an early 3000 engine and have found these 2 different
>> types of
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