Hi All,
I thought that was the way it was suppose to be done. I mean going to
the hardware store for new bolts. I'm not smart enough to buy them all
at once so several trip will have to do. Actually I looked at the
condition of most of the standard bolts and said no way am I going to
use these nasty bolts/screws. Most of them had so much grease on them I
had to scape them off to go into the solvent tank. The only ones i
reused were the special ones like fly-wheel bolts, etc.
This leads me to a question:
I was assembling the front plat on puddles, my 1275 and i'm missing one
of the small countersunk allen screws. It is under the bottom timing
chain gear. Are these special? Hardened? can I go to a local fassener
shop and find one?
Rick
52 MGTD, 74B, 76 XJ12C (Wife's), & Puddles
Christopher Palmer wrote:
>
> I forgot one thing.
> This probably seems like the smallest of minor details, but...when I
> started reassembling my Midget, I went to the local Orchard Supply
> Hardware, and bought new bolts and nuts (on many separate trips). Mostly
> grade 5, a few grade 8, standard or nylock nuts depending on where they
> were going. If this is not out of your budget, I can't recommend it too
> highly. After rebuilding other LBCs and just reusing nasty, cruddy bolts,
> sometimes having to fix the threads, this car was a breeze. When I needed
> a bolt...there it was, and it went in so easily, and the head hadn't been
> beat on or almost rounded off by some PO or another. I know it probably
> seems kinda silly, but I'll never do another one any other way.
>
> Also, I got 3 plastic divided organizers and labeled them: 1/4, 3/8, and
> 1/2, and since practically all the fasteners are these sizes (mostly 1/4
> and 3/8), in fine thread BTW, I could keep them all handy and organized.
>
> Just a helpful hint from,
> CTP
>
> ps - I bet that many of you on the list are starting to think that I'm some
> sort of neat freak after some of the 'helpful hint' posts I have sent...the
> fact is I AM THE KING OF SLOBS, and HAD to find a way of keeping things
> from getting lost or out of hand when dealing with the hundreds of tiny
> parts of my beloved LBCs.
>
> At 5:31 AM -0800 1/6/98, J. Adrian Barnes wrote:
> >What is the longest time one can go without reassembling the car before
> >you forget what everything is and where it went? I have moved my poor
> >project around so much in the last few months. It is spread out over
> >three locations, and slowly trickling over to the house I just bought.
> >I am remodeling the house (mostly because I have to, to make it
> >liveable), so the garage is full of trash, and now, midget parts. I was
> >looking over the mess this weekend and it was very discouraging.
> >*sigh* I started this thing almost a year ago now, and can't make
> >headway at all. Worked on it some last month and found the machine shop
> >put the rods on the pistons backwards. I looked closely at my newly
> >remanufactured head and there is a bit of rust developing on it where it
> >has been sitting. Oh well...I guess one of these days I will be able to
> >work on it again.
> >
> >adrian
> >
> >--
> >______________________________________
> >J. Adrian Barnes
> >adrian@utk.edu
> >adrian@icx.net
> >
> >http://user.icx.net/~adrian/
> >http://user.icx.net/~adrian/midget/
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