[Healeys] 100-4 bonnet question

[Curt/Nancy Arndt]

Paul,

The steel bonnets are spot welded to the frame. You can carefully drill out
these spot welds, repair the bonnet skin, and seperate the two and then
carefully weld them together again.

Cheers,

Curt

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Patrick and Caroline Quinn <
p_cquinn at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> G'day Paul
>
> Yes you can separate the bonnet from the frame.
>
> The bonnet on my car is alloy over a steel frame,which are held together by
> alloy rivets which are easy to drill out. I suspect that the steel bonnets
> are of similar construction.
>
> You may have to remove some paint to find the rivets.
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
>
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> Subject: [Healeys] 100-4 bonnet question
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure about something.  The100-4 bonnet is sort of like two parts,
> the
> outer skin that you see, and the under structure that gives the skin it's
> support.  Is the under structure removable from the skin?  My bonnet has A
> LOT
> of dings and such, so I'd like to get to the back side of the skin to begin
> hammering out the "issues".
>
> :)
>
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