<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Starting to see a pattern here: original bushes need pre-oiling, which can be forgotten or 'overlooked' by sloppy mechanics; smart guy gets idea to pre-oil bushes and comes up with clever name ('Oilite'), and fortunes get made.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I posted this to the Forum, but don't recall if I posted it here (paraphrased): I dutifully added oil to the oiling port on a Lucas generator for years. I was going to install new bearings and brushes to my generator as preventative maintenance, but was aghast to see when I disassembled the unit that the field coil insulation--indeed, the whole inside of the generator--had gotten oil-soaked. Because a failed generator can strand you--and they're too cumbersome and expensive to carry a spare--I opted to have the generator rebuilt by a 'pro,' but as I perused the drawing of the generator I saw that there should have been a felt disc between the hole and the bush, and mine was missing so I was dutifully dumping oil into an electrical device for years. It made an unholy mess, but the generator hung in there for 120K miles or so.<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div><br><div><br></div>Original Lucas bushes do not have lubricant and won't last very long<br>without it.<br><div><br></div>The attached .pdf is a simple method of oiling them which takes less<br>than a minute and requires only a pair of opposable thumbs.<br><div><br></div>Andy.<br><div><br></div>On 12/24/16, Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike@att.net> wrote:<br>> All this talk about adding oil to "Oilite" bushings, I would like to convey<br>> info that John at Sports N Classics sent me in response to a question of oil<br>> in "Oilite" bearings of sintered bronze. Sports N Classics is where I<br>> bought the pilot bushing for the end of the crank shaft from.<br>><br>><br>> "Quote":<br>> Mike<br>> We have never found it necessary to add additional oil to an Oilite bushing.<br>> We have been supplying replacement parts for Healey's since the early 1970's<br>> and have never had an issue with quality parts. Whenever when we restore<br>> Healey's we use as many NOS parts as possible. Over the past 15 years there<br>> has been an influx of inferior reproductions making it more difficult. Since<br>> we us many of the parts we sell we have been able to eliminate inferior<br>> parts.<br>> Hope this helps you out<br>> John"End Quote"<br>t.net<br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>