- 1. timing chain advice (score: 1)
- Author: RAntal243@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:41:56 EST
- Greetings Healeyphiles, I have a 65 BJ8 with almost 100k on a rebuilt engine. I plan to do a grand trip from Portsmouth NH to the west coast and (hopefully} back. I reckon with side trips it will be
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- 2. Re: timing chain advice (score: 1)
- Author: RAHosmer@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:10:18 EST
- An interesting thought - and one which begs the question (since we are all now very used to the timing BELT being a maintenance-type 70-80K CONSUMABLE in our rice-rockets) that, shouldn't a properly
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- 3. Re: timing chain advice (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:17:38 -0800
- I'll take a stab at this. Bear in mind I'm an amateur Healey mechanic only, take a 3-4K trip every year myself, so I've given this quite a bit of thought. Timing chains on Big Healeys are pretty toug
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- 4. Re: timing chain advice (score: 1)
- Author: Blue One Hundred <healey.nut@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:22:25 +0800
- It's pretty unusual for a timing chain to break, the loads on them are quite low and with a dual chain set up they are quite durable. To be honest I would be more worried about spinning a bearing or
- /html/healeys/2005-03/msg00358.html (8,174 bytes)
- 5. Re: timing chain advice (score: 1)
- Author: John Harper <AH@jharper.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:46:41 +0000
- Owners of 100s might be interested in this. As most know a 2199 cc version of our engine was fitted to London Taxis before most were converted to diesel. Back in the early 1960s I spotted an Austin S
- /html/healeys/2005-03/msg00393.html (8,026 bytes)
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