<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 18px"><div> I can't let this go by without commenting. With all due respect to Perry and other listers, I am with Byers on this one.<br /><br />1) I bought my car in 1973<br />2) I have lived in the Baltimore area for all but a few years since<br /><br />I am familiar with buying AH parts and keeping a Healey 3000 on the road during that time. I can't think of anything positive to say about the subject vendor based on first hand experience. I will leave it at that.<br /><br />Michael<br />36596<br /></div><div> </div><div> </div><div style="border-top:1px solid #bcbcbc;margin:5px 0px;"></div><span style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;">On 04/20/17, <span>Bob Spidell<bspidell@comcast.net></span> wrote:</span><div> </div><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"> <p>If it's a County brand pump, beware. I got 60K miles on one, but when it started to leak I replaced it with a quality rebuild. Unfortunately, the rubber bellows on the seal split on a road trip and I had Moss overnight a new pump (County) which I installed in a motel parking lot. On first start, the shaft separated and the fan went into my radiator, causing a leak. Overnighted another--with a new radiator--and it arrived with a broken shaft, even though I had instructed Moss to inspect it carefully before shipping. Had to trailer the car home from Green River, WY. Moss made good on the parts and split the cost of the trailer with me.<br /> </p> <p>Bob<br /> </p> <br /> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/20/2017 1:53 AM, Robert F. Begani wrote:<br /> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:069901d2b9b3$9b133ee0$d139bca0$@speakeasy.net" type="cite"> <div class="WordSection1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I just loved Perry’s detailed accurate report on the history of finding parts for our Healey’s. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On that subject, last spring I removed the engine in my BJ8 and had it machined. My good friend who is a retired machinist and I assembled it and then I left Florida for the summer. He finished it and put it in my garage. So after a year of scrubbing the oil and grease from the engine bay , frame, touch up painting and so on we are installing the engine and trans next week. During our discussions this week about did you???, he said “did I tell you about the water pump?” </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">It seems the frame of the pump did not meet the opening on the engine. As a machinist he always checks to see if one part is a mirror image of the other part when joining two parts. He ground out 3/4” from one side of the pump opening. He suggests the engine might run cooler with a larger flow of water through the pump which was purchased and installed 5 years ago from a well-known supplier so I did not replace it on the engine rebuild. So much for today’s parts! </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Still they are better and easier to obtain than days gone by.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bob Begani</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BJ8 67</span></p> </div> <br /> </blockquote> <br /> <br /><hr size="1" /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Support Team.Net <a class="parsedLink" href="http://www.team.net/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br />Suggested annual donation $12.75<br />Archive: <a class="parsedLink" href="http://www.team.net/archive" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br />Forums: <a class="parsedLink" href="http://www.team.net/forums" target="_blank">http://www.team.net/forums</a><br /><br /><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank">Healeys@autox.team.net</a><br /><a class="parsedLink" href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</a><br /><br />Unsubscribe/Manage: <a class="parsedLink" href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/shepard7107@verizon.net" target="_blank">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/shepard7107@verizon.net</a><br /><br /></div></div>