Following up on Tom Monaco’s presentation on hubs and splines, I found this article from Classic Motor Sports Magazine. Since Tom has been in the tyre business and has worked on more British wheels than he like to admit, I’m expecting him to read the article and tell us how accurate it is.
What a great turnout. Approximately 25 members showed up for the session and meeting. Members from Eugene came up as well as members from Seattle coming down.
Thanks to John and Judy for hosting at their beautiful home.
The technical session featured Mark Schneider talking about ZDDP and Tom Monaco talking about general maintenance topics.
Mark’s information can be seen in his post titled: Oil for Classic British Sports Cars
After the ZDDP discussion we trooped out to the garage to listen to Tom. In addition to Tom’s talk, John Carter also showed us the suction mounted video camera he recently purchased. There are a lot of these types of camera mount systems. What was interesting about this one is that the camera is solid state and the suction system has a pump with a red-line indicator that shows if the mount is losing suction.
John hasn’t tested it out yet but we are all waiting for the video debut.
Tom then took the stage. He covered the importance of using the proper battery in your Healey, especially making certain that there is absolutely no movement of the battery when sitting the the battery tray. Tom has seen many Healeys come into his shop with batteries that have shorted out against the body because the battery was the wrong size and not properly fastened down.
After the hub, Tom talked about adjusting carburators and some differences between types of spark plug wires and how to tell if your issue with a poorly running engine is more likely a carburator issue or a spark plug wire issue.
