[Healeys] Rear bulkhead fittings

[ggilliam at usol.com]

A good source of answers for questions like these are the Norman Nock 
series of restoration photographs...they help greatly on the routing of 
wiring and plumbing, clip style and placement, etc.

  Gordy
  Longbridge BN4

On 8/24/2012 8:57 AM, healeyguy at aol.com wrote:
> I just checked the BN4 under restoration in the garage. The welded
> nuts in the
> rear bulkhead, slightly outside and below the tank strap brackets, 
> are 10/32
> thread and this car had a wire loom clip fastened to each welded nut 
> on the
> axle side of the bulkhead.  No wires, just the clips. Being that the 
> size of
> the welded nut is so small I can not see that they would have been 
> used for
> anything other than wiring.
> Aloha
> Perry
>
>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Rear bulkhead fittings
>
>
> I don't know for sure,but think perhaps, in a past configuration, 
> those 2
> 3/16" captive nuts may have been used for a crossroad steady as on 
> the
> iff.(?).
> ike Maloney 66 HLY
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Stephen Hutchings
> s.hutchings at rogers.com>wrote:
> ...but I  also see a captive nut on each side below the strap
>  bracket nuts, and a hole just below where the wiring harness comes
>  through...
>  I've looked at a lot of restoration photos, and those two captive 
> nuts
>  never seem to have anything in them. Are they vestigal? (Evidence 
> that
>  BJ8's evolved from BN1's?!)
>
>  Thanks,
>  Stephen, BJ8
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