[Healeys] fuel pump mounting plate

[Bob Haskell]

Simon,

captive nuts - welded to the panel.

Bob

On 07/04/2012 10:57 AM, Simon Lachlan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've bought and "rebuilt" ,with two kits, a double ended SU fuel pump and
> mounting bracket. Both ex 12 cyl E-type.
>
>   
>
> Come hell or high water I'm going to put that in my 3000.
>
> My car, a lateish MkII BT7, has an AUF 301 which - I think - continued
> through the BJ7 And BJ8s. It is mounted on the RHS, UK driver's side, away
> from the exhaust.
>
>   
>
> In order to get the new pump in I need to  make a new or adapt the existing
> mounting plate ie the right angled bracket thingie which is bolted onto the
> body work with two 7/16th bolts. Neither my pump or its mounting bracket are
> in my BMC parts manual which appears to stop about half an hour before my
> car was built!
>
> My question is:- do these bolts crew into "captive" nuts or will loosening
> these bolts necessitate me ungluing carpets etc for access to the
> consequently loosened and rotating nuts via the interior?? (If one poked
> something through the bolt holes, I'd estimate that it would emerge about
> half way down the flat, carpeted, vertical rising from the floor behind the
> front seat to the RHS rear seat. Feeling through the carpet, there does
> appear to be something there.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon
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