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Re: [Healeys] Overdrive drain plug

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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Overdrive drain plug
From: <dwflagg@juno.com> b5745d117d3460ad00a0ad70e1e0a0b08da0f14985253d3dd595f929a1013d75840d91fd950d2964e9812035e100f020c0c08d
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:27:01 -0400
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
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Should you trust a company that spells "Healy" on their web site!!

 
> These folks appear to have the tool.
> 
> http://www.originalduplicates.com/tools.html
> 
> 
> George Castleberry
> 54 BN1
> 59 AN5
> Flagstaff, AZ
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Bob Haskell
>   To: healeyguy@aol.com
>   Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
>   Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:54 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Healeys] Overdrive drain plug
> 
> 
>   Perry,
> 
>   The part number for the service tool is 18G708 per BMC Service 
> Tool
>   Catalog published by Churchill in 1965.  It looks like a short 
> socket
>   (with the ears) mounted on a tube with a tommy bar on the other 
> end.
> 
>   Rob Nortier sells one he manufactures on ebay, but I don't see 
> one
>   listed now (and don't remember his seller's name).
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Bob Haskell
>   AHCA 3000 Mk I registrar
>   http://www.ciahc.org/registry_3000mk1.php
> 
>   On 07/31/2013 06:18 PM, healeyguy@aol.com wrote:
>   > OK its time for a reality check. Unless you owned a BMC repair 
> shop or
> had
>   > access to the factory service tool, which I have not found a 
> part number
> for
>   > yet, most mechanics have used a drift and hammer to finalize 
> the
> tightening
>   > process of the OD second type drain plug. True the tool is 
> readily
> available
>   > now days if you really need a tool that you will use a few times 
> during
> your
>   > ownership although the OD filter should be cleaned more often. 
> You only
> have
>   > to tap a brass drift a couple times to snug the plug. If you 
> have to beat
> on
>   > the plug to stop a leak, the fiber washer probably needs 
> changed.
>   > Sorry for the rant....
>   > Aloha
>   > Perry
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