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Re: [Healeys] overdrive switches - BN1

To: "Carr&Edwards" <scvc70@epix.net>, Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] overdrive switches - BN1
From: Alan Seigrist <healey.nut@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:10:44 +0800
1) The switches are expensive because the original style is NLA from
any manufacturer.  Yes, any single pole switch will do.

2). Little confused here, the BN1 - BJ8 all used basically the same
throttle switch.

You really should get the Anderson/ Moment Restoration guide, it has
all of this type of stuff in there.  Great book.


On 1/26/10, Carr&Edwards <scvc70@epix.net> wrote:
> I've searched the list archives, and couldn't find anything addressing my
> current situation.
>
> I've begun sorting out the boxful of electrical bits removed from my BN1,
> and
> apparently one/more DPOs dealt with electrical problems by--among other
> things--replacing the original O/D dash switch with a generic U.S.-made
> single-pole type, as well as installing what appears to be a BJ8 throttle
> switch (it looks exactly like the picture of that item in the Moss catalog).
>
> Questions:
> 1)  why is the BN1 dash switch (in the Moss cat.) 10 times as expensive as
> the
> later one?  And, since I have no intention of spending that much money for
> any
> switch, would an ordinary single-pole switch work here?
> 2)  can the BJ8 throttle switch be used on the 3-speed gearboxbox's O/D?  If
> so, how is that done?  When we dismantled the car, it was hooked to the
> throttle linkage--but I have no idea whether the set-up ever worked, as I
> never spoke to its last owner and don't know where he lives (he'd left the
> car
> in his father's garage in 1976 when he moved away; father died in 1996, and
> the executors told me son said to get rid of the car as he was no longer
> interested in it--thus I am now the keeper of "Cinderella," the garage-sale
> Healey....)
>
> Apparently the gearbox itself wasn't disturbed, as it and the engine were
> uniformly coated with a half-inch of black, greasy dirt.  (I haven't yet
> looked the gearbox itself over.)
>
> As always, thanks in advance!
>
> Sarah Carr
> BN1 in PA
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'53 BN1
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'64 BJ8
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