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      • Anyone near Scarsdale, NY 10583 who can help?
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      • For Sale - BT7 - 1960 MkI 3000 barn find
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      • New BN4 Healey owner needs help
      • Location of Lucas Distributor model no. on BN-1
      • Website of ALLISON (CRANE-ALLISON) electronic ign.
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      • Welcome racers and race fans
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      • April 5-6 at Infinion (Sears Point) Raceway
      • 2008 HMSA Portland Historics
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      • 100-6 Engine
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      • Which pumpkin do I use?
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      • Sprite 50th Jubilee in Carlisle, PA
      • PAINT SCHEME/COLORS FOR 59 BUGEYE
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      • Jule replecement chassis etc
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      • fuel gage
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      • Make your own 4 and 6 cylinder engine dolly
      • Build your own 7 / 16th square drain plug tool
      • Build yourself a Bugeye rollover jig
      • Wheel Balancing Adapter
      • Home Made Tools
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      • Rear Suspension Repair
      • Rear Spring Noise — Sprite MkI & II
      • Rear Spring U-Bolts
      • Rear Spring Replacement
      • Sagging Rearend
    • Jensen Healeys
      • Jensen-Healey Engine Rebuild
    • Interior and Trim
      • Keeping bucket seats in shape
      • One man's mirror mania
      • Minimizing heat and vibration
      • Door Hinge Repair
      • Veneering BJ8 fascias
      • Removing the Big Healey Steering Wheel
      • 100/4 Headlight Gaskets
      • The Trafficator
      • Interior Details of the 6-Cylinder Two-Seaters
      • Door Check Mechanism
      • 100/4 Headlight Gaskets
      • Replacing BJ-8 window vent seals
      • So That's How It Goes!!
      • Draught Seals for the Austin-Healey 100
      • Carpet Replacement Sprite & Midget
      • Carpeting Your Healey
      • Steering Wheel Finishing
    • Misc Healey
      • Driving Habits for a Healthy Healey
      • Getting Down and Getting Under
      • Magazine - Tech Article Index
      • Spring Check-up
      • Tire Sizes
      • Identification of Threaded Fasteners
    • Rear End
      • Removing a drive shaft when being towed
    • Restoration
      • Tool Kits for the 3000 Mark I
      • Tools
    • Tech Tips
      • More on "Beating the Heat"
      • Thoughts on low oil pressure, tires
      • Taking your Healey out of storage
      • Fastener Part Numbers
      • Preparing for Winter Storage
      • Reading Tailpipe Smoke
      • Making Sense Out of Sidewall Markings
      • Cold Weather Starting
      • Make Your Own Grease Cup Puller
      • Bumper Brackets and Bonnet Buffers
      • Interchangeable Parts
      • How to Have a Dripless Oil Change
      • Speedometer Checking on the Fly!
      • Make Your Own - Engine Dolly
      • Pre-Touring Checklist
      • Tire Sizes
      • Parts to Carry When Traveling
      • Heater Control Valve
      • Spring Check-up - Getting Your Healey Back on the Road
      • Repair it don't Replace it
      • Reducing Cockpit Heat
      • Motor Oil and Your Healey - ZDDP
    • Tech Sessions
    • Body Work
      • Recipe for a Sandblasted Sprite
      • Rust Belt Rebuild
      • Rust Repairs Simplified
      • Paint Colors and Sources
      • Scuttle Seal Installation
    • Brakes
      • Squeaky Brakes?
      • Power Brakes
      • Correcting brake fluid leaks in 100-6s, BN6s, and 3000s
      • Bleeding 100 Brakes
      • Hydraulic System Woes
      • Girling vs. Silicone Brake Fluid
      • Working principles of the 100-4 master cylinder
      • 100-4 Master Cylinder
      • Al-Fin Brake Drum
      • Brake Fluid Facts
      • The Power Booster - Air Valve
      • Power Brakes
      • Squealey Healey
      • Brake Drums
      • Squeaky Brakes
      • Brake Adjusting
      • Troubleshooting Your Healey's Brake System
    • Cooling
      • Heater Hose for 100-6 and Early 3000s
      • Sprite Runs Hot
      • Engine overheating – the alternative solution
      • Cockpit Heat
      • Installing Radiator Baffles
      • Coolant Recovery
      • The Subject is Heat
      • Converting a Sprite for a Crossflow Radiator
    • Carburetors
      • Thermo Carburetor Adjustment
      • The "BLACK ART" of S.U. Carb Maintenance
      • Sticking Choke on HD-8 carburetors
      • Carburetor Tuning (Part 3 of 3)
      • Carburetor Tuning (Part 2 of 3)
      • Carburetor Tuning (Part 1 of 3)
      • HD-8 SU Carburetors
      • Electronic Fuel Injection
    • Engine
      • Worn rocker arms
      • Fixing oil leaks
      • Low oil Pressure 2
      • Timing Chain
      • A Postscript on Oil Pressure Diagnostics
      • Oil Pressure Diagnostics
      • Replacing The Oil Filter
      • Camshaft Replacement
      • 100-4 Cylinder Head leaks
      • Core Plugs, Welch Plugs, Freeze Plugs, Etcetera
      • Tuning a Six Cylinder Healey
      • Valve Cover Gasket Leak Repair
      • The Banjo Bolt
      • The Tune-Up and How To Do It
      • Low Oil Pressure
      • Rebuilding the Healey Six Cylinder
      • The Healey Shaft
      • Oil Pressure
      • The Tune Up
      • Keeping the Oil in the Engine
      • Setting up Main and Rod Bearings
      • Building a No-leak Engine
      • Cam Timing
    • Electrical
      • Get the right wiring harness
      • Electrical controls in overdrive units
      • Ammeter Installation
      • A Negative approach to a Positive issue
      • Electrical testing of your car's wiring
      • Batteries for the 100-4
      • The Generator
      • The Little Black Box or Your Brake and Turn Signal Relay
      • Simple Electrical Checks
      • Converting to Negative Ground
      • Lucas Wiring
      • Polarity Reversing
      • Flasher operation
      • Trouble-Shooting Healey Indicator Systems
      • Flashing lamp direction indicator relay DB10
      • Overdrive fuses
      • Change Polarity
      • The Generator and its Commutator
      • Testing the Generator
      • Fusing Tail Lights For Safety
      • Alternators and generators—advantages and disadvantages
      • Wiring Color Codes
      • Working principles of the voltage regulator
      • Battery lugs
    • Fuel System
      • The SU Fuel Pump
      • Throttle linkage, and some thoughts on carbs
      • Where did the click go?
      • Throttle Slop
      • Overhaul your fuel system
      • Fuel Smell in the Cockpit
      • Fuel pumps for the Big Healey, 1953-1967
      • Oxygenated Fuel
    • Suspension Front
      • Installing a rack and pinion steering in a 100-4
      • Avoid Axle Damage by Adjusting Wheel Bearings
      • Down the Primrose Path
      • Shock Tower Replacement
      • Front Suspension & Steering
      • Steering Box
      • Austin-Healey Front Suspension
      • Front wheel bearings BN1
      • Cracked Spindles
    • Instruments and Gages
      • Installing an Ammeter
      • How Accurate Is Your Speedometer?
      • Electric Tachometers
      • Eight easy steps to modify a Sprite tachometer for negative ground
      • Mounting strap for temperature gauge capillary tube
      • Speedometer Needle Waver
    • Transmission
      • Clutches
      • Always Check Your Transmission Oil Level
      • My Smitty Conversion on a 1960 BT7
      • Alternative clutch set-up
      • Replacing Worn Synchro rings
      • Aligning Engine to Transmission
      • 100-4 clutch linkage wear
      • 3000 Transmission; Removal & Replacement
      • Universals
    • Ignition
      • Static timing
      • Comparing Rotors
      • Lubricating the Distributor
      • Sprite Distributor Bearing Modification
      • The Negative Spark
    • Overdrive
      • Fitting the Overdrive to the Gearbox
      • LAYCOCK DE NORMANVILLE OVERDRIVE
      • Overdrive OOPS ... Oh No!
      • Overdrive Tune Up
      • Overdrive diagnostics (Parts 1 and 2)
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    • Restoring a Healey: One Owner's Experience Part 2: Taking it apart is the easy part
    • A "Correct" Bugeye?
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    • Rocky Mountain restoration
    • Remembering my first Healey and restoring a 100M
    • Restoring a 1966 3000 MK III
    • Starting All Over. Healey Languishing in Garage Turned into Prizewinning Restoration
    • The Healey Snake Bites Again
    • One Man's Sprite
    • A Tale of Two Backyards
    • An Encounter of the Healey Kind
    • The Restoration of an Austin-Healey 100 Le Mans
    • Details on the 100-4
    • Restoring the Last of the Big Healeys
    • Must Have Been the Masochist in Me
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