[Healeys] Chassis thickness.

[Bruce Steele]

And if memory serves, I believe Kilmartin makes a replacement front crossmember, along with just about every other sheet metal part you can name.

 

Bruce Steele

Brea, CA

1960 BN7

 

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of i erbs
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 2:25 PM
To: Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk>
Cc: Ahealey help <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Chassis thickness.

 

The dent in the cross member was most likely caused by jacking up the car with a floor jack and not putting a piece of wood on the jack. Unless the dent is in the front of the beam. I have seen videos of folks using a slide hammer to pull out the dents. Cars were 5/64th a new Jule frame is 8/64th. so thicker.

I have also seen folks cut out the dented part, create a seam weld to replicate the original on a thicker piece and weld it back it grinding down the patch weld and painting it over to look stock.




Ira Erbs

Portland,OR

      _______                                  _______
     (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)
         (_________________________)

          BT7 engine and disk brakes

 

 

1967 MGB    <http://www.britishcarspecialists.com/assets/images/MG_emblem.jpg> 

 

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments. Mario Andretti

Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words

 

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 5:10 AM, <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk <mailto:simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk> > wrote:

Ever since I’ve owned my 3000 it’s had a nasty dent in the front crossbeam of the chassis. That would be the one near the bottom of the radiator. In the car’s history file there is reference to a serious grounding on a rock whilst driving down a track in Spain.

Be that as it may, I’ve got the car up on a set of drive-on then jack up ramps at the moment and seeing that dent has determined me to get something done about it.

Solution one:- cut out the bent bit and weld in a new piece.

Solution two:- clean up the area and weld a plate over the whole cross beam thus giving it additional strength etc.

What gauge is the chassis? I’d be putting something no thinner than the existing and very probably a tad thicker. But I need to know the start position…

Thanks,

Simon


_______________________________________________
Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html
Suggested annual donation  $12.75
Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
Forums: http://www.team.net/forums

Healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:Healeys at autox.team.net> 
http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/healeys

Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/healeys/eyera3000@gmail.com



 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/healeys/attachments/20180209/616ffd4a/attachment.html>