Interesting thought ...........I am carrying two spares now.
Robert N. Blair 65 Yellow BJ8 rnbmail@yahoo.com
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, David Nock <healeydoc@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> From: David Nock <healeydoc@sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Rotors - it happened ....
> To: rnbmail@yahoo.com
> Cc: "Healey List" <healeys@autox.team.net>, "Tom Collins"
<collinsclassics@comcast.net>
> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 8:58 AM
> I am starting to think that some of these rotor failures is
> possible
> caused by the electronic ignition. The rotors sometimes
> dont go on
> and bottom out thus causing the rotor to sit against the
> cap. Also I
> have not had a rotor problem with any of the cars that we
> maintain
> that are running stock ignition systems.
>
>
>
>
>
> David Nock
> British Car Specialists
> Stockton Ca 95205
> 209-948-8767
>
> www.britishcarspecialists.com
> .
> .
>
> On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Robert Blair wrote:
>
> > David, good guess - I do. Not new - been there for a
> long time.
> >
> > BUT, it was the rotor - new rotor put in - bingo.
> >
> > What rotors do you sell and where are they
> manufactured?
> >
> > Robert N. Blair 65 Yellow BJ8 rnbmail@yahoo.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 8/28/08, David Nock
> <healeydoc@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >> From: David Nock <healeydoc@sbcglobal.net>
> >> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Rotors - it happened ....
> >> To: rnbmail@yahoo.com
> >> Cc: "Healey List"
> <healeys@autox.team.net>, "Tom Collins"
> >> <collinsclassics@comcast.net>
> >> Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 8:13 AM
> >> My bet here is that you have electronic ignition
> on the car.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:42 PM, Robert Blair wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Listers,
> >>>
> >>> Third drive out since the resto, and we
> stopped on the
> >> freeway at
> >>> about 150
> >>> miles completed - against my wishes. It
> turned out to
> >> be the rotor
> >>> at fault.
> >>> I had the one with the 'rivet' in the
> top, not
> >> the one where the
> >>> brass is
> >>> moulded into the base.
> >>>
> >>> There has been lots of good chat on rotors -
> and the
> >> questionaable
> >>> sources of
> >>> same. Would those of you with experience of
> good and
> >> bad rotors
> >>> and rotor
> >>> sources, please re-tell your recommendations
> of
> >> 'made in xxx' and
> >>> 'buy from
> >>> xxx'.
> >>>
> >>> Robert N. Blair 65 Yellow BJ8
> rnbmail@yahoo.com
> >>>
> >>>
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