Except for the big cloud of smoke, the same thing happened to my BJ8.
I blew the soft plug out of the intake manifold; don't know off the top of my
head if a BT7 has a single manifold or one for each carb.
bs
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Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Barnes" <brentbarnes309@yahoo.com>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 9:47 AM
Subject: Bang! and then nothing
> List,
>
> Last evening, I was taking her down to the climatized warehouse for a winter
>nap...about 5 miles into the 30 mile
> trip, doing about 65 (top down, about 30 degrees, but hey!), when BANG! BANG!
>coupla huge backfires, big cloud of oil
> smoke and then nothing. Engine would turn over on the starter but would not
>fire at all. No oil on the rear, no oil
> under the hood, lots of oil on the dipstick. Three hours and three flatbeds
>later, she's at least enclosed. Ideas
> anyone? I guess I'm also looking for a good engine doc in the Northeast....
>
> Brent Barnes
> (wuz a) 60 BT7 MK1
> Garden State
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