<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Mini’s & sprites use a felt. Soak in your favourite oil flavour, and poke it down with a flat screwdriver </div><div dir="ltr">The shape means it doesn’t need “tying” Bob. </div><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.ahspares.co.uk/austin-healey/sprite/steering/felt-bush-steering-col-bottm.aspx"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ahspares.co.uk/austin-healey/sprite/steering/felt-bush-steering-col-bottm.aspx" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E6E6E6;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:200px;" width="300" height="200" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="4b57cd62-d1d5-49cc-bc3d-7ae96cfe2ce2-1.jpg" src="cid:E2E8755A-307B-4027-8C55-037E94A5A12D"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E6E6E6" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(230, 230, 230, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ahspares.co.uk/austin-healey/sprite/steering/felt-bush-steering-col-bottm.aspx" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#000000" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);">Felt Bush - Steering Column - Bottom</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:600;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.ahspares.co.uk/austin-healey/sprite/steering/felt-bush-steering-col-bottm.aspx" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#A2A2A9" style="color: rgba(60, 60, 67, 0.6);">ahspares.co.uk</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Don’t big healeys use something similar? I’m sure I used something similar on my 100 about 40 years ago </div><div dir="ltr">Best</div><div dir="ltr">Chris</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 14 Apr 2025, at 11:19 am, Patrick and Caroline Quinn via Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>G'day</span><br><span></span><br><span>I asked the same question and at the top you cut the leather so there are two thin strips that you tie together around the stator tube. Have tried o-rings and they do decompose.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Hoo Roo</span><br><span></span><br><span>Patrick Quinn</span><br><span></span><br><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><span>From: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net> </span><br><span>Sent: Monday, 14 April 2025 9:57 AM</span><br><span>To: Patrick and Caroline Quinn <p.cquinn@outlook.com>; Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net></span><br><span>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Steering Stator 'Lantern' Bush</span><br><span></span><br><span>Thanks, Patrick. That's a thought, although I'd have to tie the leather--how to tie it?--farther down the stator tube to avoid the slot for the adjustable steering wheel. Maybe an additional felt bush, like the one already present at the top of the DWM column? Or, possibly, some O-rings (which would likely decompose eventually)?</span><br><span></span><br><span>bs</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 4/13/2025 4:43 PM, Patrick and Caroline Quinn wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hello</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I have the lantern bush in the steering column of the BN3 which has a non-adjustable BN2 box/column.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It still rattles.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>It's been suggested that tying a strip of leather around the stator tube adjacent to the steering wheel and brushing the leather with oil will stop the rattle while still enabling the stator tube a little bit of flexibility. I have yet to do it, but have seen it done to other Austin-Healeys and it works.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hoo Roo</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Patrick Quinn</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Blue Mountains, Australia</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: Healeys <healeys-bounces@autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Bob </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Spidell via Healeys</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Monday, 14 April 2025 9:09 AM</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [Healeys] Steering Stator 'Lantern' Bush</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi All,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I'm installing a DWM steering column/box in my BJ8. I've had a 'knock'</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>from somewhere around the fascia when going over bumps that has </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>annoyed me for years--a worse one was eliminated when I sound a small </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>spanner in the 'black hole' in the chassis--and I'm hoping, maybe the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>new column will solve this problem (among numerous others with the old </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>box). On my</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>BN2 there was a stator tube 'lantern bush,' which looks like it's </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>there to prevent the stator from banging against the inside of the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>hollow shaft, as unlikely as that may be, and I thought I'd install </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>one in the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>BJ8 just for yucks. Anyone know where to find these, discussed here:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>https://www.ahexp.com/forum/the-100-forum.4/lantern-bushing.301737/</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Expecting no luck, any thought on putting some sort of washer or sleeve on the stator tube?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Bob</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html</span><br><span>Suggested annual donation $12.75</span><br><span></span><br><span>Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/healeys http://autox.team.net/archive/healeys</span><br><span></span><br><span>Healeys@autox.team.net</span><br><span>http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys</span><br><span></span><br><span>Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/austin.healey@gmail.com</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>