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Healey problem.Can anyone help?

To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Healey problem.Can anyone help?
From: MKIII4ME@aol.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:32:45 EDT
This was received from one of our club members of the Cascade Austin Healey  
Club.
Can anyone help this guy?
Thanks,
Dennis
1965 BJ8
 
Jim,

AS you may or may not remember, I have the 60 BRG  BN7.

We were going to go to Winthrop last Friday and got as far as  Arlington.

Maybe you can put this into the query list for me as I am not  sure how to get
it into the e-mail.

I have had a problem that has been  very intermittent.

I was driving along at about 60 and all of a  sudden,

I hear this strange noise,

It sounds like a mechanical  unwinding.

A fast metallic clicking ( only clunkier)

And then it  seems to wind down in speed,

Even though the engine speed is  steady,

And it settles to a speed in line with the speed of the  engine,

It then varies with engine speed.

It is coming form the  engine compartment,

But to determine the exact location by noise seems  impossible.

Usually it stops on its own after a few seconds,

Like  about 20 to 30,

But this time it continued as I coasted on the shoulder  for another mile.

I pulled the vale cover at the roadside,

And  could not find any thing abnormal,

I then shut it off and let it sit for  a few minutes while I kicked the tires,

AS has happened in the  past,

It went away when I restarted the engine,

And I got it back  to the garage.



Now, I am not a mechanic by occupation,

And  troubleshooting a part time problem like this is frustrating,

I felt that  it may be the starter hanging up and partially releasing,

This would  account for it not always happening,

The previous week we had driven over  Stevens, Bluet and Snoqualmie without 
any
problems.

However, the week  before that we had driving out to Monroe and it happened
there for about 20  seconds and cleared it self.

Not a regular thing.



I also  thought maybe it was in the transmission,

But not sure what it would be  that would let loose like that and then self
heal.



Thought  maybe it was in the timing chain, but again, why would it be  self
healing?

(I tried to get the timing cover off, but ran into a  problem removing the dog
not.  Any suggestions on getting it off?   Is it left hand thread?)


I could use some suggestions if anyone has  any history with this type of
problem.

Thanks for listening and will  look forward to any input.


_Phil.Daniels@METROKC.GOV_ (mailto:Phil.Daniels@METROKC.GOV) , 
_phil.daniels@metroke.gov_ (mailto:phil.daniels@metroke.gov) 


Philip  M. Daniels
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