Depressing the clutch puts forward pressure on the crank pushing it against
the thrust washers and increasing friction, thus creating more "drag" for
the starter to overcome.
Best--Michael Oritt
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:00 PM, PG <britishcars at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I would have thought the opposite.....with the clutch depressed, the input
> shaft is disengaged and the only thing turning is the engine. Whereas,
> with the clutch not depressed and the car in neutral, the starter has to
> turn the engine and the input shaft.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:
> healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of insptwo at msn.com
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 10:28 AM
> To: healey help
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Two hot too shart?
>
> When your Healey sits hot and does not want to start, try placing it in
> neutral, do not depress the clutch, and hit the starter. Several years ago
> I
> was having that problem in the Florida summers when I ran it and stopped
> for
> while. The temp gauge would go up to over 212 when it sat for a short time.
> Starting the car without the clutch being depressed appears to lessen the
> drag
> on the starter and the engine spins faster.
> Bill
> BJ7 >
> > I have been having an issue with the BN7 for a couple years now. It
> > seems that in hot weather driving that once the temp guage reaches 190 or
> > higher that it does not want to idle too well and will cut off. It is
> > impossible to restart for a while after this happens.
> >
> > Also, if I stop for a
> > bit and say go into store then restarting is impossible. When I come out
> the
> > guage may read 212 or so. This is what happened today. After about 20
> > minutes cooldown and the guage dropped to 190 it started right up and I
> was
> on
> > my way.
> >
> > Other than this the car runs well under all conditions.
> >
> > Any thoughts
> > out there?
> > Keith
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