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Subject: [Healeys] Core plug
From: healey.nut at gmail.com (Alan Seigrist)
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:11:35 +0800
References: <BANLkTimj2gK8bV_ZbG_rVPnwJMSjuagq9Q@mail.gmail.com>
Gergo -

If you aren't showing the car, just get a rubber or copper
bolt-expansion plug from your local auto supplier and bolt it in.

Alan

On 6/30/11, Austin Healey <pajtamuvek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> I am after a 100 miles of pure fun. Unfortunatly the rain stoped the fun
> this time also. Even more miserably this time the sky was bright and the
> rain pured from my engine. Umho. After shuting the negine off I have found
> that one of my core plugs have gone.
> Since it is the 2.7 engine with the "doomed" type plugs, I had quite some
> bad feelings of theese plugs. Is there an "appropriate science" how to
> install them? I have applied some sealand and pundhed the center of the
> plugs until they became a bit "flat" on the center. Did I do it wrong?
> Other than that the car ran marvellous. I have found a working set of
> distributor springs, soo now the power curve is fine, the hesitation and
> vibration went away from the low-range. Only I found the vacuum advance a
> bit too much. I will decrease that and the car will be spot on.
>
> Gergo
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