[Healeys] Brake Fluid Reservoir Details (seriously concours)

[HealeyRick]

Michael,

IIRC, the concours guidelines is a living document with the
expectation that changes/additions/corrections could be made as more
information becomes available or additional original cars come to light. 
Perhaps bringing this information to the committee's attention might be
helpful.

 
Rick


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 From: Michael
Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>
To: "healeys at autox.team.net"
<healeys at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:52 PM
Subject:
[Healeys] Brake Fluid Reservoir Details (seriously concours)
 

As I plod my
way through the assembly of #174 I occasionally run across
details where my
observations made during disassembly are at odds with that
I read in the
concours guidelines, not that I ever intend to enter this car
in a concours
but i just want to try to preserve history.
The differences:
1. When I
disassembled the car it was apparent that the brake fluid
reservoir had never
been off (it even had some of the original decal on it)
BUT the nut on the
clamp of the reservoir was hex nut not the square nut
found on later cars and
as specified in the guidelines. The screw is the
original cheese head slot 2BA
but there is no sign that the nut was ever a
square one.
2. The 1/4" pipe
running from the reservoir to the master cylinder is
COPPER!! Again this line
looks to be original, correct clips, ANF flare
nuts and accurately bent but
copper? I note that this pipe changed at
serial # 156813. Were the early ones
really copper and if so were they
painted black...anyone know?

-- 
Michael
Salter
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