[Healeys] Engine bay eats nut

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Tue Mar 10 15:41:21 MST 2009


Mike -

The angled support beams for the foot wells, one on each side, have a
rectangular box beam at the bottom where it attaches to the chassis
rails.  These beams are open and everything goes down there.  You need
a magnetic feeler or a snake-claw to get in there to pull stuff out.


On 3/11/09, kaynmike.bham at juno.com <kaynmike.bham at juno.com> wrote:
> So I pull the valve cover off, flip it to look at the inside and one of the
> cap nuts falls out of the cover and heads for the ground. It never made it.
> I neglected to follow it all the way to it's resting place,figuring
> thar...well...where would it go? (But on the garage floor.) A few minutes
> later, I take a glance under the car....no nut. I searched everywhere (on
> intake/exhaust side) shining a high-powered flashlight in any suspect
> crevasse. No nut. Took the left(front) wheel off to look at the spring pan.
> Nope. Any suggestions? TIA Mike Gougeon   56BN2

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Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


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