[Healeys] Lower grille mounting brackets

[I Erbs]

100,100-6,3000?

Ira Erbs
Portland, OR
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Andy Thorp <bce257 at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:

> I'm trying to fit up an early (wavy) grille and have run into a few
> problems
> for which I'd appreciate some advice from the experienced folk.
>
> 1) The lower lip trim doesn't fit very well over the rivets which hold the
> three lower grille brackets on. The bulged out stems of the installed
> rivets
> are too big for the finisher trim to comfortably go over. Were they
> originally
> riveted on? How else were the grille brackets attached to the shroud?
>
> 2) How was the lower lip finisher installed without A) damaging it and B)
> scratching the paint. It seems that either the ends have to be trimmed
> short
> so it can be installed (like many restored pics online) or it has to be
> bent
> and distorted to force it to fit. Neither way seems very satisfactory.
>
> Part of the original problem is that the grille opening was too narrow
> vertically and had a rather flat area in the middle instead of the original
> curved ellipse. I have cut about a 1/2" wide slot section out of the shroud
> below the lower lip and pushed the lip downwards which has improved the
> shape
> of the opening but I can't figure out how to get both ends of the trim
> installed as they have to go over the lip which has a smaller radius inside
> the opening than the trim.
>
> 3) I'd like to find either the angle of the grille panel or the measurement
> horizontally from the top of the grille opening to the bottom.
> http://tinyurl.com/lrfyapp It seems that there are quite a few restored
> cars
> with near vertical grilles and it doesn't look quite right. An unrestored
> Mk2
> here has 132mm horizontally between the top and bottom of the grille
> opening,
> whereas the earlier (1957) problem-child shroud has only 110mm and that is
> after I have pulled the bottom lip forward about 30mm.
>
> Measurements of a later grille:
> http://tinyurl.com/mhu7367
>
> Can somebody with a known good/original early shroud measure the distance
> using a ruler and a spirit level to find vertical please?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Andy.
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