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Re: [Healeys] 3.54 Gear Set - Pumpkin Stamping

To: BJ8 Healeys <sbyers@ec.rr.com>, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 3.54 Gear Set - Pumpkin Stamping
From: <pennell@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:02:24 -0500
Steve and all,

I added a tag behind one of the pumpkin bolts to ID the ratio 11/39.

Keith

---- BJ8 Healeys <sbyers@ec.rr.com> wrote: 
> John, I've had a 3.54 Lempert gear set in my BJ8 since February 2002, and it
> never occurred to me to obliterate the original markings.  Why do that?  If
> you do it on the diff, why not the axle housing, too?   The diff is so
> robust it isn't likely that anyone will ever need to do any replacement of
> the gears again unless they want to go back to the original 3.9, and in that
> case they would want the original markings.
>  
> I converted my car to negative ground, also, but I didn't obliterate the
> "positive earth" words on the tachometer.
>  
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666           
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC  USA
>  
> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of john spaur
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:42 AM
> To: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] 3.54 Gear Set - Pumpkin Stamping
>  
> Are people remembering to sand out the 11/43 stamping and to replace
> it with 11/39? The axle housing is stamped too but I did not change
> that; only the stamping on the diff.
> 
> John
> '62 BT7
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