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Re: [Healeys] Very helpful Lucas Reference has been made available

To: "Healey" <Healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Very helpful Lucas Reference has been made available
From: "Mirek Sharp" <m.g.sharp@sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:34:55 -0400
Many, many thanks for your efforts Allan - I will look at it later but it 
sounds really interesting.

Should we all wear white shop coats and skinny ties when we read it? 
(grins).

Mirek


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Seigrist" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
To: "Healey" <Healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:52 PM
Subject: [Healeys] Very helpful Lucas Reference has been made available to 
you (for free!)


> All -
>
> One of my biggest complaints about the shop & parts manuals for our cars 
> is
> they do not provide sufficient detail for understanding the theory and
> operation of Lucas equipment and circuitry.  Imagine, then, that I have 
> been
> able to come into ownership of a 1955 edition of something called:
>
> "Lucas Overseas Technical Correspondence Course"
>
> This course is over 200 pages long and is complete with diagrams, pictures
> and plain English procedures.
>
> Rather than hoarding it and never sharing it, I have decided to make the
> whole course available to all of you.  This course is VERY helpful, it has
> excellent step by step procedures for diagnosing faults with everything 
> from
> horns, control heads, wipers, starters to OD circuitry and equipment.
> Having looked at it, all of the sections are very useful, and the OD
> electrics section is particularly useful to help owners understand what 
> all
> the various relays and switches do (esp. for 100 owners).  The 
> distributor,
> horns, wiper, lighting and wiring sections are also exceptionally useful 
> as
> well.
>
> This will be very helpful for the Austin Healey owner as well as those of
> you who own 50's and pre-50's cars equipped with Lucas smokelectrics.
>
> Jokes aside the whole set has been listed on John Sim's website for your
> use.  It requires Adobe Reader 8.0 or later to view properly.
>
> http://www.healey6.com/bulletin.htm
>
> Note that Sections 8 is incomplete (missing pages 30-60) and Section 9 is
> missing, these will probably be loaded within the day.  Apologies in 
> advance
> for Section 9, it had some major water damage and I had to do my own
> mini-version of a Dead Sea scroll restoration to put it together for you.
>
> Thank you John for hosting this.
>
> Alan
>
> '52 A90
> '53 BN1
> '64 BJ8
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