[Healeys] Seat Rail Studs Redux, Part II

HealeyRick healeyrick at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 12 15:23:37 MST 2010


Once the JB Weld had cured, I reassembled the rail.  I found putting the
 ball
bearings in the rear first, followed by the fronts worked best.  
You will
need to tee up the ball bearing between the channel and slide 
and strike it
with a drift and hammer in order to get them all to seat, 
then reinstall the
roll pins.  After that, it was merely a case of 
reinstalling the seat rails,
the JB Weld having no problem holding the 
bolts while I tightened the T-nuts.
  If you are going for the concours look, you could use "elevator bolts" ,
which have the flat circular head of the original.  I couldn't find these in
the correct size locally and since I don't have a snowball's chance of
concours gold level, I went with the bolts.

Rick


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