Congrats Frank! Now your going to have to do a nice BJ8 project for
yourself! His and Her big headaches!
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite (trying to get her to quit her bad smoking habit)
56 BN2 (engine almost done and welding on frame starts in a couple of weeks)
Frank Clarici wrote:
> Tetanus (my big headache, I mean Healey) runs, moves, drives, and
> stops on it's own.
> It only took 3 months! I still have a month to go on the interior so
> it will be ready for the Jersey cruise 10/3.
>
> Some minor glitches like a loose upper radiator hose that kept me wet
> on my trip around the neighborhood. (no windscreen yet) Heck, no
> fenders either ;) All those nuts and bolts that I dropped trying to
> put the car together that never hit the floor, all fell out. Or was
> that some important parts falling off?
>
> I do have a mechanical clutch problem not because I have a BETTER
> master cylinder, but because I think I boinked the release bearing
> plate on the pressure plate when trying to muscle in a 4 ton tranny
> while on my kness inside the car. There is a severe pulse when I step
> on the clutch and it's making a strange noise at mid pedal. So out
> with the tranny real soon.
>
> And no I didn't rig an accellerator cable, I spent 10 bucks and 12 hours
> fabricating a few rods to make a nightmare linkage system work.
> All I know is when the pedal is floored, the carbs are wide open and
> it idles real low, like about 500 rpms so I must have done something
> right.
> And with no pictures to guide me. A few plumbing fittings and some
> bushings along with some 3' of rod from the hardware store and a few
> throttle balls from the auto store and loads of cuss words and it's
> amazing what you can make when you scream loud enough!!!
>
> All in all, the car runs well. Pretty quick too.
> Any racers out there want to trade a quite fuel pump for a Holly
> electric that will squirt across the garage? It's as noisy as those
> square jobs!
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