Len -
How about the hole on the backside of the frame engine mount?
Alan
On 2/7/07, Len and/or Marge <thehartnetts@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Speaking of carburettor nuts. In addition to the black hole in the frame
> (which is now plugged with a piece of foam rubber), there is another black
> hole of unknown location. I have dropped at least three carburettor nuts
> over the years which I have never found. I hear them drop and it sounds
> like they are hitting metal and/or the ground but I can never find them.
> They are not in the frame black hole, not resting on the frame, not behind
> the engine mount, not on the ground, nowhere to be found. Oooo-eeee-oooo!
>
> The wrench I have found to be useful on some of these nuts is a curved
> (semi circular) gear wrench. You do not have to get your hand in as far
> as
> with a straight wrench.
>
> (The Other) Len
> Vacaville, CA
> 1967 3000 MKIII HBJ8L39031
>
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Tracy Drummond <bighealey@charter.net>
> > To: Healey List <healeys@autox.team.net>
> > Date: 2/5/2007 6:50:17 AM
> > Subject: Treasure Lost - Treasure Found
> >
> > Dag-nabbit!
> >
> >
> >
> > I lost my favorite screwdriver down the black hole on my chassis frame!
> It
> > was a trusty old screwdriver the kind with a little compartment in the
> > handle to stow magnetic tips of various sizes. I have had that
> screwdriver
> > for so long I don't remember from where it came. Usually I have a rag
> > plugging this notorious, cruel, ever hungry and conscience free little
> devil
> > of an opening. But noooooo not yesterday.
> >
> >
> >
> > So tell me guys, what have you lost down there? Were you traumatized?
> > Perhaps we could form a support group for those suffering from similar
> > losses.
> >
> >
> >
> > When you turned your frame upside down on the rotisserie what treasure
> for
> > some previous project or owner did you find?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Tracy Drummond
> >
> > President AHCUSA
> >
> > VP/Events Director GGAHC
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