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The definitive roadside tools and spares list

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Jim Werner of the Blue Grass AHC has a wonderful website at: https://hometown.aol.com/bgahc/jimwerner.html and one of the pages deals with spares and tools for the road.

It doesn't do much good to carry spares and tools if one does not know how to use them so it always helps to practice installing your spares in the safety of the garage. Otherwise you may as well stick to the AAA card and a cellphone.
 
healeynut said:
tahoe healey said:
Actually the most important thing in the kit is the book of all the club members listed by towns.
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Probably the single best advice I have ever heard. Unfortunately, this will do me no good in Hong Kong!
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OH I don't know about that. If you send me a ticket I'll come right over.---Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
Nope Randy, you parts list not complete yet!.How you gonna patch up all them plastic /rubber bits that fail on the road? Better include a fresh bottle of super glue!---Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hammer.gif
 
Thanks for the reminder Michael. I forgot all about Jim Werner's site. Haven't been there in a few years. It is truly a fantastic website. A real service to the Healey community. And a very complete parts and tools list too. No point in reinventing the wheel.
Randy
'66 BJ8
 
That's the thing that looks like a rubber grommet connected to the back of the throttle rod... it's connected to the firewall just above the intake manifold in the back.
 
tahoe healey said:
Randy said between the fire wall and the interior bulkhead?
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It's <u>supposed</u> to be in the firewall, but I'll bet that every six out of ten (6:10) Healeys also have one that fell into the never-never land between the two (2) panels.
 
John Loftus said:
BlueRidge2 said:
It would be good to have Keoke and Dave R's telephone number to go along with all those tools! Bob
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Do they take collect calls? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif
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tahoe healey said:
Randy said between the fire wall and the interior bulkhead?
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TH!, thats where you carry the spare. between the firewall and the supporting bracket mounted on the shaft behind the functioning one---Keoke-- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hammer.gif
 
Haven't taken a really long trip lately. But I did drive my72 MGB every day for 9 years. Lots of trips during school. Now, thirty years later, the thing that would give me the most piece of mind is my loving wife in the Explorer behind me. with the tools of course, and maybe a tow bar also.
 
Cutlass, how in the world is she gonna tow you ifin she be behind you? Those nylon tow ropes are great ifin you keep your foot on the brake.---Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif


P.S. Cutlass I know exactly what you be going on about!- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/iagree.gif-- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
Presumably she will be behind me for a couple of reasons. 1. She'll be close if I have to pull off. 2. She can stay between me and the tailgaiting tractor trailers.

In the old days we did use those ropes on our 57 Chevys. Not even close to safe. A real tow bar, hitched to the trailer hitch, is what I had in mind.

By the way, I did offer to take both the MGB and the Healey, with one of us driving each. That was a non-starter.
 
Yeah Cutlass, I remember that earlier attempt at a consensus and I don't blame her one bit. Who wants to be pushed off into that old MGB! or that hot, leaky, uncomfortable, rough riding, noisy Austin Healey--Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
I even offered her the Healey. Stil a no-go. Something about air conditioning and comfortables seats, and non-leaking hood.
 
Cutlass said:
I even offered her the Healey. Stil a no-go. Something about air conditioning and comfortables seats, and non-leaking hood.
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Gee, I don't know why she didn't want to accept that; the only time you get wet is when it's raining.
 
Yep Randy, that be true about the rain. But when you hand your mate a towel and she thinks its to keep her dry, until you tell her to mop up all the incoming water nearby in the car. That's enough to make a grown woman /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cryin.gif.---Keoke- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
keoke, im not into the "original" tools for the healey but i found this "british tool co" seems to have lots of bits, what,what,what, - am i late to the party again? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif
 
anthony7777 said:
keoke, im not into the "original" tools for the healey but i found this "british tool co" seems to have lots of bits, what,what,what, - am i late to the party again? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif
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YEP! seems like you be an hour late en ah dollar short.-- /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
 
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