[Healeys] Lockable door on BJ7

Sun Feb 1 11:13:09 MST 2026

I spend the winter in Spain and have a long term rental car, always manual. However,  I fear that, as automatics become more popular, the day may come when I can't get a manual. That will take the fun out of the twisty mountain roads!Stephen BJ8Sent from my Galaxy
-------- Original message --------From: Michael Salter <michael.salter at gmail.com> Date: 2026-02-01  4:03 PM  (GMT+01:00) To: sbyers at ec.rr.com, healeys at autox.team.net Subject: Re: [Healeys] Lockable door on BJ7 

Of course the great thing about Healeys is that most car thieves these days can't drive a manual transmission. 

M

From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of sbyers--- via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2026 9:25:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Lockable door on BJ7

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I have two fuel pumps on my BJ8 – the stock SU and an electric pump from Autozone. 
 They are wired with a switch to select either pump, or turn both off. 
I can’t count the times the car failed to start in the morning after a night at a motel or starting but running out of gas in the parking lot when I forgot
 to turn the switch back on.  One 
one occasion in the middle of nowhere in Montana I felt the car slowing down and failing to accelerate until it occurred to me the active (Autozone) fuel pump was failing. 
 Switching to the SU kept me going another 160 miles until I could get to civilization and discover it was the backup pump that failed. 
The local Autozone in North Dakota had an identical replacement that I got installed in 15 minutes.  
It is also convenient sometimes when working on the car with the ignition switch on to be able to prevent the fuel pump from running.

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

From:
 Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf
Of Robert Markovich via Healeys
Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2026 7:23 AM
To: warthodson at aol.com; Leonard Berkowitz <drberkowitz at hotmail.com>; HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com>
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Lockable door on BJ7

A fuel-pump shutoff switch is a perfect antitheft device—and easy to install by splicing into the appropriate wire at the fuse block. I have one in my BN7 to address dieseling
 after nothing else worked. Simply run the system out of fuel before switching off the ignition. 

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On Saturday, January 31, 2026, 3:04 PM, warthodson--- via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
 wrote:

My father purchased a used '62 Corvette in the late 60's. He worked in the insurance industry & he heard that 90% of all Corvettes were stollen
 sometime in their lives, in Chicago, where we lived. His solution was to install a manual shut off valve in the fuel line. The valve was hidden behind the drivers seat & operated by a "T" shaped handle which was removable. His theory was that if someone broke
 in thru the canvas top & hot wired the ignition, they would only get a block or 2 before the engine would die. The crook would panic & run away.

Gary H

On Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 11:13:30 AM CST, HealeyRick <healeyrik at gmail.com>
 wrote: 

Lockable doors don't seem to be much of a theft deterrent. Having lived in Boston for many years in the
 age of British sports cars, I saw plenty with broken vent windows or slashed convertible tops that defeated locked doors. Maybe putting a tracker in the car and an ignition cutoff might be more effective

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 7:38 PM Leonard Berkowitz <drberkowitz at hotmail.com>
 wrote:

My BJ7, which I have owned since 1984,  had lockable door handles with push buttons. When I restored the
 car in the early 1990’s I had the original door handles reinstalled. I was told that the push buttons were wrong and I wanted my car to be more original. If I remember correctly the conversion was not a major big deal. 

Len Berkowitz 

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