Listers,
I'm doing bodywork--cut and replace--on the rear dogleg (lower front of
wing/fender)
area of my BJ8. The lower dogleg is secured to the frame with two
screws at the very
bottom. There is also a hole just under the first (only) bend from
vertical. One side of my car
has a sheet metal screw in this hole--the two that secure the wing to
the chassis are machine
screws--whilst the other side has none. Should there be a screw in this
hole (it hardly
seems necessary), or should it be open for drainage? The latter makes
sense, since there
was a lot of rust in this area due to accumulated crud and water, but if
the sheet metal
screw is supposed to be there I shall apply one (the one sheet metal
screw has a
Posidrive head, so it may be original).
Bad ASCII art (as seen from edge of dogleg):
| <---bottom part of wing dogleg
\___
| | <-- two machine screws to affix dogleg to lower sill
^
| location of hole, with sheet metal screw on one side, but not on
the other
TIA,
bs
--
***************************************************************
Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
***************************************************************
|