[Healeys] Front wheel bearing spacers. New blog post.

[Bob Spidell]

Another good post, Michael. A couple things:

- To the best of my recollection--I haven't gotten in there in a 
while--my BN2 has the spacers. I think it was one of the later cars so 
maybe they were added at the end of the run? Nothing else about the car 
makes me think any of the previous owners were particularly diligent or 
careful with the car (though it was in relatively good shape when we 
bought it).

- If you don't have facilities for using a penetrant dye--what us 
Yankees call 'magnaflux'--the 'ring test' can sometimes suffice. Suspend 
the stub axle, preferably with wire, and give it a sharp rap with a 
hammer, wrench, etc. The axle should ring, like a tuning fork, but if 
you get a dull thud you likely have a crack in the axle. My dad took our 
stub axles up to BCS to have new bushings installed and reamed, and Dad 
said Norman Nock was impressed by Dad's knowledge of the ring test (Dad 
was an Old School mechanic himself).

- I always assumed if a part wasn't absolutely necessary the BMC bean 
counters would have it removed; maybe they realized keeping the spacer, 
for the BN4s and later cars was cheaper than replacing broken stub axles?

Bob


On 1/18/2023 8:00 AM, Michael Salter wrote:
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