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RE: reserve petrol switch

To: <DSBonar@aol.com>, <mg-mmm@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: reserve petrol switch
From: "Gerhard Maier" <m.g.erhard@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:19:59 +0200
In-reply-to: <7c.3bbe44de.2c5d62bb@aol.com>
Reply-to: "Gerhard Maier" <m.g.erhard@gmx.de>
Sender: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net
Hello Don,

the nut you are missing is a half-high (1/4 inch thick) 7/16 BSF nut.
At least it is so on the original petrol reserve valve of my N-type.

Gerhard 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mg-mmm@autox.team.net]On
>>Behalf Of DSBonar@aol.com
>>Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 8:54 PM
>>To: mg-mmm@autox.team.net
>>Subject: reserve petrol switch
>>
>>
>>Gentlemen,
>>
>>In rebuilding my firewall, I have reached the reserve petrol switch/valve. 
>>Thanks to Bob Rich, it's all shiny and sports a new Teflon seal. However, 
>when 
>>attaching to the fire wall via the z-shaped bracket, I appear to be missing a 
>>fixing nut.
>>
>>On the end of the valve, opposite the actuating rod, is a threaded post which 
>>passes thru a hole in the mounting bracket and holds the vale in place 
>>against the firewall. It appears to require a nut of some kind ... an acorn 
>nut 
>>perhaps?
>>According to my German thread gauge, the thread is 18G 5/16.
>>Can someone identify the thread's common name and describe or supply a 
>>picture of the correct fixing nut? I've got a bunch of "under the bonnet" 
>photos, 
>>but no close-up of the petrol valve.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Don B.
>>PA 1823
>>
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