... and another on the gas pedal shaft--4 total--although that one
doesn't suffer as much abuse (that was the 'under the dash' part).
Can't speak to your car, Bruce; the instructions show these are suitable
for BN7s. Maybe prior to BJ8s they used something different (can't
imagine cork would hold up long at all). Mine were rubber/bronze
bushings in a metal cup; the nylon/teflon ones still go inside the metal
cup. Looking at Bruce's photo, you can see the ends of the cup
protruding from either side of the brackets, although I don't see any of
the white nylon bushes.
Every time I think I've done every possible job on a Healey it proves me
wrong.
Bob
ps. Of course, it's Eric GruNden, not Gruden. Guess I still had a
little football in my head.
On 3/10/2017 6:07 AM, Tim Davis BN7 wrote:
> I don't follow this. Mine were cork in a metal cup not rubber/bronze.
> If the engine is out these need to be replaced, two on the cross shaft
> and one where the pedal shaft enters the engine bay.
> Nice photo.... looks just like my car
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From: *"Bruce Steele" <healeybruce at roadrunner.com>
> *To: *"i erbs" <eyera3000 at gmail.com>, "Bob Spidell" <bspidell at
> comcast.net>
> *Cc: *"Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Sent: *Thursday, March 9, 2017 8:37:11 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Healeys] Throttle Bushes
>
> I was going to replace the bushes on my throttle shaft, but saw what
> Eric had done back in, well, who knows when, and they looked great.
> So I just stripped and painted the shaft.
>
> Bruce Steele
>
> Brea, CA
>
> 1960 BN7
>
> *From:*Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of
> *i erbs
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 09, 2017 9:50 AM
> *To:* Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net>
> *Cc:* Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Throttle Bushes
>
> Good catch. They tend to get munged when folks install or remove their
> engines, if not as stated heat and time.
>
> I built a cable throttle set up to bypass the Rube Goldberg set up. I
> have promised a wrote up to John Sims for quite some time to add to
> his wonderful site. I have been slowly working on it and will soon I
> hope get it to him.
>
>
> Ira Erbs
>
> Portland,OR
>
> _______ _______
> (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
> (_________________________)
>
> BT7 engine and disk brakes
>
> A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti
>
> Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:31 AM, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net
>
> Cross-posting from BCF:
>
>
> While getting ready to drop the rebuilt engine into my BJ8, I
> noticed the 'throttle relay shaft'--yeah, the one under the
> scuttle, all but impossible to get to with the engine
> installed--was bent. 'Crap,' I thought, 'one more job to do before
> I can get the engine in.' It turns out this was
> serendipitous--first time this word's been used on the
> List?--because as I inspected the shaft, I noticed that one of the
> two brackets was also bent, and further inspection revealed that
> the bush on the driver's side was way sloppy (actually, pretty
> much gone). A quick check of the Moss catalog showed 'N/A' for all
> the parts--I'm screwed, I thought. Then, I remembered I'd bought a
> replacement set--supposedly made of teflon, but they say 'nylon'
> on the bag--but had given up on installing them because the
> instructions showed 'through BN7 and BT7' (BJ7/8s need not apply).
> I called BCS to see what they had, and John, their parts guy said
> they'd work on BJ8s. So, I did some digging and, although the
> photo of the instructions and applications on Moss' web page
> showed 'though BN7 and BT7,' if you download the instructions--5
> pages!--they've been revised to show they work on the 'J' cars.
>
> Anyway, if anyone has the engine out of one of the later 6-cyl
> cars I recommend you check these brackets and bushings. They are
> bronze bonded to rubber and, although my car has nearly 200K
> miles, I suspect the life of these is determined as much/more in
> years as in miles, as the rubber gets baked by engine heat. The
> rubber on my driver's side bush was completely dry, caked and
> brittle, and could conceivably have resulted in a stuck throttle.
> The instructions are intimidating--5 pages!--but, except for
> having to work under the dash, which I hate, the job was pretty
> straightforward. I managed to get the shaft reasonably straight,
> and the used bracket I got from BCS was in good shape (though, in
> hindsight, I probably could have straightened my bent one), so now
> my Rube Goldberg-designed throttle works smooth and with no slop.
>
> Thought I'd pass this along since I hadn't seen this issue
> discussed before. I'd long since replaced the rubber/bronze bush
> on the shaft on the engine, and should never have to worry about
> these again. Credit to to Eric Gruden who designed these bushes,
> and to Moss for going the extra mile to provide these, for a
> reasonable cost (about $13).
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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