[Healeys] Helicoils in SU carbs

[Bob Spidell]

If the bolt he wants/needs to use fits through the hole in the carb--it must if you have to put a nut on it--making the hole bigger with a tap won't help much. 

I don't trust putting steel bolts into aluminium anyway; I'm going to be putting helicoils into the mounting bosses for my clutch slave cyl while the engine/gearbox is out. 

Bob 

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From: "i erbs" <eyera3000 at gmail.com> 
To: "Fred Wescoe" <fredwescoe at gmail.com> 
Cc: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell at comcast.net>, "healeys" <Healeys at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 11:49:37 AM 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Helicoils in SU carbs 

Thanks, 
That was my thinking on the matter 

Ira Erbs 
Portland,OR 
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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Fred Wescoe < fredwescoe at gmail.com > wrote: 



Lin, 

On my BJ7, I simply ran a tap thru the hole to create threads in the body. I measured the original hole size with a drill until I found one that would not pass thru. One fraction size larger worked for me. Then I used 2 bolts on each carb that matched the tap size. 

Keep it simple. 

Fred 
66 BJ8 



On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Bob Spidell < bspidell at comcast.net > wrote: 

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I think it would depend entirely on the size of bolt you would use. Note the coil kits usually don't come with the drill bit you need to oversize the holes before tapping for the coil, and it's usually some oddball 64ths size. 

FWIW, it sounds like a good idea as I have K&N filters on my BJ8, and they are indeed a PITA to install (unfortunately, I'd still have to deal with the stupid little acorn nuts on the outer side of the filters). 

Bob 








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