About 99% of all the hardware on a 6 cylinder Healey is one of three threads
1/4 x 28 fine threads
5/16 x 24 fine threads
3/8 x 24 fine threads
What I would recomend is to take all the hardware and clean it all up and
have it plated if you want to keep the original hardware. Otherwise I would
just seperate all the bolts, nuts, and washers into groups. Then seperate
all the bolts by length and size, then do the same to the washers and nuts.
Now you will know what lengths you have you can go to the local hardware
store and buy all new nuts, bolts and washers. Then going by the part
numbers you can figure the lengths of the bolts and where they fit, then
make a box for each part number of bolt and when you need a bolt with the
part number HBN0518 you will know which it is.
HBN 0518 = H Hex
B Bolt
Z Zinc Plated
05 5/16 diameter
18 18/8 length or 2 1/8 length
This will work through out all hardware on the Healey
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David Nock
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on 7/22/04 9:55 AM, GARY MOOMAU at moomau@verizon.net wrote:
> Hello, I am a new kid on the block and live in Yucaipa, CA. I am the owner
> of a 1967 BJ8 which is currently a "basket case" in my garage. With all good
> intentions, I disassemble my BJ8 in 1989 with the hopes of doing a ground-up
> restoration. As I took my pride-and-joy apart, I bought replacement parts
> for everything that, at that time, needed replacing (about $20,000 worth).
> The block, heads, crank, and cam were taken to the local machine shop. All
> electrical motors (windshield wiper, fuel pump, generator, etc.) were
> professionally rebuilt by my local British Motor (AH) Mechanic. I then went
> back to school (Graduate work - Duh!), moved, bought a business that died,
> sold a business, moved, moved, got sick, moved, etc., etc. Now it is 2004
> and my BJ8 is still a basket case. The only part missing is the cam (and a
> tool box), which was stolen in a garage burglary in 1997 (don't ask me why
> the cam was taken). I have begun the task of inventorying everything and
> from what I can see, everything is there. Now I older (just older, not
> wiser), near retirement, health ain't good, and I have to watch my funds,
> BUT I am ready to restore my screaming green bomb.
>
>
>
> Question: Is there an existing list of screws, nuts, bolts, and washers
> that give identification, description (size, length, etc.) so I can measure,
> identify, separate, and know where to put them (before you say it, don't go
> there). All fasters (nuts and bolts) are in bottles and cans which have
> long lost their identity. At this time I have begun to identify them using
> the Austin-Healey 100/100-6/3000 Restoration Guide by Gary Anderson/Roger
> Moment and cross referencing them in the Austin-Healey 3000 Mechanical
> Service Parts List issued by BMC Limited (Series BJ7 and BJ8).
>
>
>
> Gary Moomau
>
> Yucaipa, CA
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