[Healeys] Helicoils in SU carbs

[Alan Grossman]

"I don't trust putting steel bolts into aluminium anyway;"

Jaguar, among others, don't seem to mind it.

Cheers, Alan


On 9/23/2016 12:23 PM, Bob Spidell wrote:
> 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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>           BT7 engine and disk brakes
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> Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words
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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Fred Wescoe <fredwescoe at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:bspidell at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>         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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