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[Healeys] earth strap missing

To: John Sims <ahbn6@verizon.net>
Subject: [Healeys] earth strap missing
From: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:22:19 +0100
You have been lucky not to fry the engines wiring and cause a fire. It 
is a thing of all times and all makes and indeed one of the first things 
to check.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL

John Sims schreef:
> Make it three because it happened to me. My car was always hard to start
> from the day I bought it. Took me several years to figure it out as it is a
> very easily overlooked item (in fact I discovered it was missing when I was
> going through the Nock catalog on a rainy day with nothing else to do and
> noted an entry for it. Starter spins like a champ now.
>
> John Sims, BN6
> Aberdeen, NJ
>  
> http://www.healey6.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
>
> Subject: [Healeys] 100 starter motors
>
> i second john's theory.  i have seen two healeys with starting problems that
> had missing or poorly connnected ground straps, and the starter would hardly
> turn the motor over.  hjim
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