[Healeys] Mystery....part 3

[Alan Seigrist]

Skip -

Taking the fuel line off is only a partial diagnostic for fuel.  The
best is to take the float chamber lids off and check if full of fuel -
the float jets get clogged more often than you think - esp. w/ grose
jets.

Alan

On 1/7/09, Skip Saunders <tfsbj7 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> My next test was to check the cylinder compression ..perhaps I'd blown a
> head gasket?  (In all 6 cylinders simultaneously?).. Yes, I'm clearly
> grasping at straws at this point.   As you might have guessed the cylinder
> compressions tested:  1-157, 2-147, 3-144, 4-147, 5-152, and 6-147..No
> problem there.
>
> ------------------------------
> Check on "part 2" to find what I found was THE ANSWER!!!....
>
> In the meantime, see if you can tell what the problem was yourself..:-)   (I
> believe, you have all the information you need to diagnose the problem, but
> you do have to know the workings of a BJ8 to figure out what was causing my
> problem.)
>
> Thanks
> -skip saunders-
> BJ8 -Gladys-
> BJ7 -Harriett-
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Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8