- 1. Re: Spinners (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:03:54 -0500
- ...and the whole car raised three inches like the B -- mustn't forget the "icing on the cake." Fer sure! -- JohnM When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the mon
- /html/healeys/2005-12/msg00442.html (7,165 bytes)
- 2. Re: Jack Stands (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:55:26 -0500
- Also, there are concrete blocks and there are "cinder blocks." While I wouldn't want to use either while working under a car, if forced into such a situation, there's no doubt which I'd use. -- John
- /html/healeys/2005-12/msg00619.html (7,686 bytes)
- 3. Re: Santa, Having Been Good To Me (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:33:08 -0500
- Just understand that the closer the mirror is to the driver's eye, the wider the field of view it provides (and the reverse is true -- mount 'em out near the headlights, and the field of view is very
- /html/healeys/2005-12/msg00777.html (6,864 bytes)
- 4. Re: Santa, Having Been Good To Me (mirrors) (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:35:52 -0500
- Having been around when the cars were new, it's my opinion (that is, I can't prove it) that it was just the fashion of the time. -- John Miller
- /html/healeys/2005-12/msg00779.html (7,146 bytes)
- 5. Re: Friday Funnies- Warning -Very Non Politically Correct (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:41:14 -0400
- Heh...guess it's predictable that someone would stick Carlin's name on it. ;) Carlin has this to say about that: "Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it came from one of my albums, books,
- /html/healeys/2005-10/msg00367.html (7,258 bytes)
- 6. Re: One Man's (or Woman's) Taste, Pimp My Sprite, or Modified (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:47:10 -0400
- An automatic? Oh, dear...
- /html/healeys/2005-10/msg00505.html (8,374 bytes)
- 7. Re: transmission bj8 (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:32:31 -0400
- David Ward wrote to David Jones: Whoa there, David Ward...David Jones' comment was spot on, and I for one saw absolutely nothing "smart arse" about it. You may want to read it again and reevaluate yo
- /html/healeys/2005-10/msg00510.html (7,263 bytes)
- 8. Re: Are they the right spark plugs (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:45:45 -0400
- In a new BJ8, driven in town, I found the (slightly hotter) RN14YC plugs were a better choice. With RN12YCs, the car would start to miss while accelerating after they had a few weeks of local mileage
- /html/healeys/2005-10/msg00584.html (7,149 bytes)
- 9. Re: Austin Healey Brake fluid 'lool alikes' (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:36:30 -0400
- Brake fluid, unless it is sealed or from a recently opened container, *should be* thrown away.
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00078.html (7,445 bytes)
- 10. Re: Speed at 3000 in 3000 (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:01:51 -0400
- Get on the interstate and have your navigator time the intervals between mileposts, 60 seconds being 60 mph. If you have or can borrow a watch with a tachymeter, you can read the speed over a measure
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00184.html (7,867 bytes)
- 11. Re: Ten Improvements (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:06:37 -0400
- I'll admit to having thought about hiding throttle-body fuel injection in the SU shells... (likewise, modern (no points) ignition trigger inside the stock distributor). -- John Miller, heathen
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00213.html (7,666 bytes)
- 12. Re: The scam continues. (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:40:29 -0400
- If someone offers to accept payment via Square Trade, they're about to scam you (typically with a phony link). It's a mediation service, not a payment service.
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00278.html (7,766 bytes)
- 13. Bleecker Green's car, anyone? (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:02:23 -0400
- Guess it's time to fling out the net again. Wonder if anyone has any knowledge of a BJ8, licensed as a '64, that I sold to Bleecker Green, a Dallas, TX photographer, in the summer of '66. It was (ori
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00339.html (6,647 bytes)
- 14. Re: Bleecker Green's car, anyone? (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 04:40:53 -0400
- Thanks for the leads, guys. Alas, that phone number has been disconnected for a while, and I haven't yet resorted to snail mail. -- JohnM
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00353.html (6,449 bytes)
- 15. Re: Aluminum door trim. (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:56:37 -0400
- Send it off to a plater for anodizing.
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00364.html (6,927 bytes)
- 16. Re: heater fan sucks (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:33:03 -0400
- Earl, there's been a misunderstanding somewhere -- permanent magnet DC motors do reverse rotation with polarity. As has been pointed, because it's a centrifugal blower, it will move air regardless of
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00442.html (8,891 bytes)
- 17. Re: FW: WOMEN....as explained by engineers!! (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:58:35 -0400
- You should've *always* had that problem on this particular list. Binary attachments are automatically stripped off. -- John Miller
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00498.html (7,606 bytes)
- 18. Re: heater fan no longer sucks (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:53:12 -0400
- Not everyone. Permanent magnet DC motors reverse direction when the polarity is reversed. Motors with windings on the stator and armature run the same direction regardless of polarity. Whether he's g
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00514.html (7,416 bytes)
- 19. Re: heater fan no longer sucks (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:57:39 -0400
- Actually, the "will or will not reverse" got pretty well resolved, I think, once it was realized that there are both permanent magnet and dual-wound motors on heater fans. As to whether a squirrel ca
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00523.html (7,798 bytes)
- 20. Re: A deal that may be too good to be true (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <healeys@n4vu.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:28:22 -0400
- A typical scam involves invoking the name of eBay's Square Trade or some such as the repository of the funds. That's completely bogus, of course; that's not what Square Trade does. They'll give you a
- /html/healeys/2005-09/msg00617.html (8,940 bytes)
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