Correct Jack for BJ8?

[Editor_Reid]

shg, we both know the correct jack for any healey is definitely not the one that came with the car! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif

The great irony about the original jacks is that NONE of them will fit under the corner of the car with the flat tire, which is of course lower than when the tire isn't flat. Heck, it's hard to get them under the frame even when the tires aren't flat.

This is why, when you get a flat, you are well advised to drive to a soft shoulder where you can dig a hole to put the jack in to get it under the frame. Now if I could just find the King Dick "Entrenching Tool" from my tool kit... I know it was here in the boot somewhere... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif

 

[anthony7777]

editor reid, us yanks aint much better i.e the jack that came with my new 3/4 ton chevy. pick up, you may as well call yourself an ambulance before ya get started using it! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cry.gif

 

[Keoke]

Having spent the winter playing with the jacks .

WOT!! You mean they ain't got no boys back there!!---Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

 

[anthony7777]

keoke, that was the boys name "jack"! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

 

[Keoke]

keoke, that was the boys name "jack"! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

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WOT!! You mean there was two of em!--Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/angel.gif

 

[healeynut]

Reid -

It seems you should write a tool kit supplement to the Gary Anderson book for all of us novices out there.

Alan /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bow.gif

 

[Editor_Reid]

Reid -

It seems you should write a tool kit supplement to the Gary Anderson book for all of us novices out there.

Alan /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/bow.gif

Thanks for the suggestion, but in a way, I already did. The Anderson/Moment book is basically an adaptation of the Concours Guidelines, with lots of photos added. I wrote the original draft of the tools/jacks portion of the Concours Guidelines, and that info (slightly updated/modified from the original draft) remains there.

(And you, healeynut, are no "novice"! You may be new around here, but novice? No way!)

 

[healeynut]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] (And you, healeynut, are no "novice"! You may be new around here, but novice? No way!) [/QUOTE]

Reid -

I am definitely a novice when it comes to factory tools... I have three Austins and not a single original factory tool (I'm embarassed to say, I don't even think I've ever actually held one of these tools in my hand)... I bought all my cars without any original tools. I wouldn't even know where to begin!

By the way, there's a guy in NZ who sells complete (reassembled) Austin Healey 100 tool kits on eBay... do you know if these kits are very original? I'd like to pick one up if you think they are good.

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[Editor_Reid]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] By the way, there's a guy in NZ who sells complete (reassembled) Austin Healey 100 tool kits on eBay... do you know if these kits are very original? I'd like to pick one up if you think they are good.

I'd have to see the kit. I've noticed some of that Kiwi's stuff in the past and I remember that it looked pretty good, but there are so many pieces in the Healey 100 tool kit, and some are so hard to find, that I'd have to see the individual kit being offered to render an opinion.

 

[Dave Richards]

I've seen those tool kits as well, I emailed and asked if the tools were original, or reproductions. He clais they are original. A bit less than $200 as I recall.

 

[SHG]

I put together a tool kit over the past few weeks. It cost me about $100, including the shipping costs from UK (which are very high on a per tool basis). It just takes some looking and patience, and when you find a tool guy and win something, ask him if he's got any of the other pieces and combine shipping. The NZ guys kits are all a little different, and once you have the list of what you want/need, it's all there over the course of a month or so.

There are a few UK tool guys who sell regularly. Check out their stores as well as their auctions, as they have a bunch of stuff on BIN in the stores that never show up in a search. Also, when you're buying tools beyond the auction item, they are happy to negotiate.

 

[Dave Richards]

That sounds like the way to do it, it hasn't been high on my priority list, but at least now I'm beginning to understand what should be in a kit. Thanks for the info on the UK tool guys, that's good to know.

 

[Editor_Reid]

I put together a tool kit over the past few weeks. It cost me about $100, including the shipping costs from UK (which are very high on a per tool basis).

Is it safe to assume that you're talking about a tool kit for a BJ8? That would consist of exactly three items and a bag (the spark plug spanner, the tommy bar and the hammer; the jack, jack handle, and jack strap would add three more items, although jacks are usually counted separately from the tool "kit."

I can see where you could find the spark plug spanner, the tommy bar and the hammer for $100, but the tool kit for a 100 has 20 items, and then the jack, three-piece jack handle, jack bag and jack handle bag are all over and above that. Those kits - if they have good and truly correct items - sell for $500-1,000 or even more. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif

 

[SHG]

I can see where you could find the spark plug spanner, the tommy bar and the hammer for $100, but the tool kit for a 100 has 20 items, and then the jack, three-piece jack handle, jack bag and jack handle bag are all over and above that. Those kits - if they have good and truly correct items - sell for $500-1,000 or even more. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/shocked.gif

not if you buy carefully, a little at a time. Excluding the jack, which used to be the subject of this thread, you just methodically work down the list. You get the box spanners from one guy, the ss spanners from another, the King Dick adjustable from another, etc. You ask each one if they happen to have whatever else you need, and build up to a full tool kit. You find the UK guys selling the spanners for 99 pence together with 30 other brands of old spanners. I didn't say it was easy, but it does give you something to do. It's out there is you want to bother.

 

[Dave Richards]

I put together a tool kit over the past few weeks. It cost me about $100, including the shipping costs from UK (which are very high on a per tool basis).

Is it safe to assume that you're talking about a tool kit for a BJ8? That would consist of exactly three items and a bag (the spark plug spanner, the tommy bar and the hammer; the jack, jack handle, and jack strap would add three more items, although jacks are usually counted separately from the tool "kit."

Ah Ha!

 

[anthony7777]

gents, for all you "toolys" out there its 7;39 wed. ebay "big dick wrench" $9.99 bedda hurry want last, no i dondt have the item #, why should i be the only healey owner to be going blind? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif

 

[Keoke]

Im Just wondering what you fellas gonna do with them tool kits if you have a BJ8 with Non eared Knockoffs. Betcha can't even fix a punchure on the side of the road.????--Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif

 

[Editor_Reid]

Im Just wondering what you fellas gonna do with them tool kits if you have a BJ8 with Non eared Knockoffs.

There's a tool for that. There's even a "tyre iron" for Healeys with pressed steel wheels, but they are even more rare than a Healey with pressed steel wheels. Iffuns ya git mah drift.

 

[SHG]

Iffuns ya git mah drift.

I just love it when Reid talks dirty. Better hope the mod don't catch you.

 

[Keoke]

Im Just wondering what you fellas gonna do with them tool kits if you have a BJ8 with Non eared Knockoffs.

There's a tool for that. There's even a "tyre iron" for Healeys with pressed steel wheels, but they are even more rare than a Healey with pressed steel wheels. Iffuns ya git mah drift.

Course I got the drift right off the bat. I know there is a tool for that. But you ain't got no kit wid one in it.---Keoke-?- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/banana.gif--------------P.S. I got da tire irons! How else you gonna fix a punchure ona side of da road.-- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif