After Mice Ruined This BT7 Will It Run?
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- Today I try to get a 1962 Austin Healey 3000 BT7 running that had been stored in a storage unit for many years. I end up finding more than I had bargained for.
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This Week With Cars - Episode 0118
Hello Steve,
I have been enjoying watching you renovate the ancient British sports cars.
I was around in the sixties…!!
And it was said of the AH 3000, that the life expectancy of the car and the driver was eighteen months…!!
I’m pleased that there were a few careful people and that some of the cars also still survive…!!
Thanks for pointing out source of rattle. It WAS bothering me.
I love your Healey! I have two TR6’s, and have recently started restoring a TR3B. My first TR6 I purcaced in 1975 and put 200k on it while it was my primary car until 1996. The Healeys, Triumphs, MGs, and even Jags are tough cars if routinely maintained. Keep the English stuff coming!
If any of you other subscribers haven’t driven one, you should. Your fun meter will top out!
TR Mark
Absolutely fantastic! But there again, I'm a 72 yr-old Brit who's loved out motors for around 75 of them! No surprise there then.... 🤓🏎️
Those are valuable cars, and great road vehicles. Multi-carb cars do take longer to tune, the vacuum meter is key. Thanks for the demo.
Great video. Real good common sense advice, and great to see that Healey running like it should! Can we see you do some more with the Frogeyes, please?
Thanks again, Steve, and have a great Christmas!👍👍
Hi Steve . These are my favourite shows . I'd nearly forgotten this 3000 and it is rare. Probably because no one could tune triple SU's properly ! It sounds sweet ! Well, have a peaceful Christmas and a very productive 2021. Take care and stay safe.
my bro had one, worked his butt off to get it running at 16...everytime he drove it anywhere he got pulled over as cops thought he stole it. It was CA and years back. He finally got sick of it and traded it for a volvo...sad, he should have kept it. But youth doesn't know what they have 'til it is gone. I loved riding in that car.
Had this exact car in 1963-64. I had a lot of fun in Key West, but it was not so great in CT winters.
Nice 3000 Healey, one of my favorite UK sports cars.
Been waiting for this one ever since you removed the rice. Great update and looking forward to future videos on this car and hope you can eventually restore it back to near its original condition.
Hi Steve, fabulous car Dont sell it, drive it!!. I have exactly the same model. Brought it back to the U.K. from Arizona. The further you drive these cars the better they get, Happy Christmas. David.
Always enjoy your videos, its good seeing them being repaired and used and not a computer in sight.
I remember driving one of those with a ford small block 260, almost a cobra. Lighter engine more power and more fun, those were the days in Ashburnham
Great video, this was the re-fit film I've been looking forward to seeing ever since the mice episode. Happy Christmas to you.
Great video, I remember that my dad and raced against them, we raced 66 Datsun 1600 Roadster.id almost trade my 2010 XC60 T6 R-Design for that car. Good to see it running again.
While living in Naple, Italy I drove a Dino with triple duel webers. I took it to Ferrari to get the carbs adjusted. The tuner used just a hose and set them by listening.
For many years in the 1970s an Adelaide South Australia Car dealership on Port Road used to have a Mini ute on the roof. I think the business was Newport Motors. Often wondered what became of it. Would have been great to get hold of it and fit a 1275 Cooper S motor and running gear. I note the little truck has twin carbs so interesting to know if its a 1275 cc motor or the smaller Mini Cooper motor.
Looking forward to seeing how the restoration works out. Would look great a British Racing Green with white roof and Mini lite mags.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge Steve. You are so clear I could easily follow what you do at home.
I found that very interesting in getting it tuned up ! Would have loved to see the engine going back together as well!👍🇨🇦
I have two engine build videos planned soon so stay tuned!
Thanks again young Steve for another excellent video. I know quite a bit about older British cars as I grew up with them, even working on most of them or ones from the same family of models, but each time i watch one of your videos it refreshes my old brain on how I, and now yourself do the order of jobs upon them.. Thanks again, Ian.. UK.
Well done - owned, drove, and created a lifetime of adventures in a '62 triple carb when in university. Left it behind when moving on to grad school, but still fondly recall the pleasure of driving it "in the day".
This video takes me back to my BT7 mark 1 days. Nicely done.
I love listening to people who know what they're talking about! I owned a 1969 MGB GT many years ago. It had dual SU carburetors; I spent many weekends with my Unisyn gauge getting those carbs in sync and tune. This video really brought back memories! thanks.
Thanks Steve, yes please show more videos like this, please keep working on that AH and show us the progress!
Glad to see it on the road
Another great video for the viewers, thanks Steve , appreciate your efforts.......
In 1964, while station in the UK, I bought a 1960 Austin Healey 3000 from another serviceman. It was left hand drive model with a modified bonnet (it had louvers). It was painted yellow and black ad was an instant eye turner from everyone who looked upon it, including the locals.
I heard you say tremendous hours , thank you for sharing your expertise knowledge with us , I truly enjoy watching
Thanks for posting this video and great job you did! It was a walk down memory lane for me, I used to work on them way back in 1960’s when I was serving my apprenticeship. For information, in case you were unaware, the pin you use to lift the carburettor dashpot is called a jiggle pin. Thanks again and I look forward to watching more of your postings👍
Thank you for your good explanation of how to adjust the carburettors.
One of my favorite cars of all time. A good friend of ours had one of these when I was a child and he would stop by our house to visit and would always give me a ride before he left. I'd love to have one.
Very nice little car.
Steady on old boy ! Over the pond this was known as the "Big Healey" 😂😂😂
@@johndavey72 Right, they did make smaller ones. My dad had a reliant robin we swapped with a motorbike engine in it man that was fast.
not seen the 3 carb set up for years.
Still a great (vintage) car 👍👍
Some of These old videos I consider some of the best. But boy is this old and neglected Austin Healey just remarkably complete. I am astounded how good of condition it’s in. Chinese fried rice and all. Puts new meaning in the term takeout. L O LL.
Busy December , Some good stories coming out of your garage.
Make sure the carbs are balanced with a drop test first, then ensure the dashpot is full of the correct oil to the right level. Wind the jet all the way up and then lower it an equal number of turns, usually 2 1/2 turns.
Use a feeling gauge to set the linkages once you have balanced and synchronized each carb with the others at proper operating temperature.
Its a lifting pin on the underside of the carb, not a lever. You should only lift it 1/8th inch
You've done a wonderful job of bringing that old beauty back to life. Just to point out a "wee" issue; looking at the vid at 1:21 & 4:20 all three carb slides appear to be set at different bottom idle stops. The rear one looks like it would be forcing a high idle with the front starving the intake to the front cylinders. My protocol is to back off the three idle setting screws until they're not in the equation at all then undo the linkage clamps to all three to make sure all slides are able to bottom out then start my aligning of slide movement process from there to arrive at a final idle setting for all.
Have you sorted the carbs on the big Jag yet ? Did I miss that video ? :)
I had one of the BN7's new in 1960, great car then and they still look great today. Looking forward to more on yours.
Good piece of engine tuning, very informative. Thanks.
A choke knob, carburettors, a distributor with points and a rotor arm! Oh how it all takes me back to the days before you needed a degree in software design to work on a car!
Healys are practically in the same league as E Type Jags. Very sharp cars. Great job and patience getting it running. Happy New Year!
Very cool video! Keep up the content!
My 68 MGC (6 cylinder version of the MGB) that I refurbished back in the mid-80's had triple carbs. Couldn't synchronize those carbs without the vacuum tool like he was using. Once I borrowed and used that tool, the engine smoothed right out.
Just found your site yesterday and am impressed with your knowledge of "tea-bagger" autos. The sound of the 3000 is exciting.
Great video. Merry Christmas.
Great easy watch and interesting video. Nice calm documentary unlike a lot of American car videos where the presenter spectacularises every minute, eg Samcrac!!!
Well done.
(English guy)
These sure are gorgeous cars! Love their looks and simplicity.
Nicely done! I really like that car!
many years ago, my uncle, the architect, came to visit. He had a light blue metallic 3000. I was just 17 and he threw the keys at me. I drove it about half a mile with the e-brake on. It had the Laycock overdrive. It was just a switch on the dash. It had this smell.... like wet horse hair , oil and leather.
Nice video. Do you sell the cars on after you have sorted engine issues etc? Could be a nice little earner.
I just discovered your channel last weekend. What a great bunch of videos! I have 4 MGs at present but nothing close to your collection. In what city are you located. Most of my cars are longing to run again.
Nice Healey!
Something I haven’t heard you mention is fitting new rings and de-cokes? King pins and track rods? Do you get involved with these because I thought cars of this age often needed this kind of work.
Do you ever sell these cars? I'm looking for a "62 fixer upper!
That is a really cool car love the triple carb setup...
The triple carb set up is not optimal - the rear carb gets very hot...... twin 2" is better
Enjoyable , and that's a great car.
Great video. I used to do this on my MGB GT in 1980s, never thought I would watch someone doing this so many years later 🙂
the m/g and austin healey were beautiful beautiful vehicles the m/g t d was also great
That hood rattle is pretty loud :)
At least it is worse on the camera than in person.
The hour odometer prolly rolled over on this one
“No rice”bumper sticker!
Do like a Healey 3000. Especially the ones in like a light blue/green with white panels you see from time to time.
best show yet thank you
I smell sake🙄 Must be some rice in 'er somewhere still😁😂🤣
Memories of my youth I worked a lot on these car's .And older ones from the 50s no computer bullshit you used your eyes and ears.
Nice video.Well explained and interesting to watch.
Good Job Steve
Thats a dream car for me.
The values of the big Healey's have skyrocketed. Holy crapoli! I watch bring a trailer. I have a 55. Bought it about 15 years ago. No way I could afford it now at today's prices
Beautiful car!! Are you doing a full restore.?
Excellent, I had A 100/6
Great video ! Keep going !
Is this the same engine that was full of rice or did you swap it out because I never saw you clean it out.
It is the same engine, I did not take it out just put the head back on it after rebuilding and cleaning the rice out of it.
I have a 58 Austin Healey that looks almost exactly like this one. I tune my Dual SUs with a Color Tune Glass spark plug along with a vacuum carburetor synchronizer Tool. Iv never been able to correctly tune my carbs using the lifting the piston method.
Have your throttle shafts been rebushed? Especially won’t work correctly if you have vacuum leaks.
@@ThisWeekWithCars Iv rebuilt the carbs using a rebuild kit from Moss Motors. Iv never replaced the shaft bushings. There's probably vacuum leaks at the shafts. The engine runs pretty good after playing with every thing.
I assumed you have ensured that the carb damper pots were topped up with oil ?
Love those healeys!!! Great videos!! Are any of the bugeyes possibly for sale?
Great content - keep it coming please
You used a Lot -A-Bit of starting fluid :) 3 liters, 3 carbs and 30 horsepower.
Make sure the brakes work as those cars are quick!
John Seeley,ex UK now live in Thailand, ,had a BN7 when I was 19,the best chick magnet I ever owned....!!
Good old days,,,,...
Boot channel seal , would fit to stop the bonnet rattle .....
I saw that odometer and said "Wow, low mileage unit!" Figured the pedals probably showed 100k... then you said "speedometer doesn't work...."
Looks like my grandfather was messing around with the dash. Swear The Red Green Show was written by him.
Loved that show as a kid!
S U Carbs . Fiddly Bastards . But once dialled in they are near as good as EFI . Economy AND Power . Clevis Pin has flogged out on the Bonnet Hinge would be my guess . Or perhaps the Bonnet stay in it's CORRECT place doesn't hold it so far back ?
Gorgeous Old Car . Street Rocket from another Era .
I'd love to have a big Healey!
Wot a nice old car great content keep it coming
Can you do an MG Midget carb tune up video... Please
Thanks, At !8 I was privalge to be the second owner of 4 cyclinder Healy.
More on this car please
I bought a 66 3000 in 1971 and my Dad made me return it. 😢
Marvellous
It has a great sound
Loved it
I sure miss farting around with carbs. Yeah, not really. But they are part of the package, so you get what you get.
You are 100 right about carburetor great video
Sounds like a freight train going over a crossing.
What happens to these cars after you get them running? Do you do a full restoration or sell them on?
I like that you like these cars👍
No rubber - a repositioning of the hinge.
That exhaust is too pretty to use!
I always thought the 3000 was the prettiest car ever made. Not much ground clearance though.