[Healeys] What's "this" behind the dash?

[Bob Spidell]

Lemme guess ... you only read the digest?

 From Earl Kagna:

"This reminds me of a similar situation that I had many years ago on my 
BJ8 – a ‘thunk’ sound from the left side of the dash area (or so I 
thought) on certain bumps but not others. Drove me nuts trying to find 
it - literally for years.  Finally found it when the car was torn down 
in conjunction with the total restoration.

  There are 2 plates – one on each side of the car – called wing support 
brackets in the body manual (plate BC 2) - that tie the assembled wing / 
shroud flange to the top of the inner wheel arch.  The manual is not 
very clear on this thing.
When dismantling this part of the body, we found the pair of bolt / nut 
assemblies totally missing and clear evidence that this was the source 
of the ‘thunk’.  But it sure sounded like it was coming from the dash or 
bonnet.
Your problem just might be that these bolts are there but loose, which 
could conceivably cause a creak type of sound that seems to be from the 
dash area.  Try pressing down on the right side fender / shroud close to 
the centre of the wheel cut out and maybe fore and aft a bit to see if 
you can produce a similar sound.  The bad news is that these things are 
a real pain to get to on an assembled car – they are almost impossible 
to see, let alone service as they are up high and behind the air hoses 
on both sides, and can’t be accessed from the wheel arch because of the 
inner fender position."

 From me:

"Earl,

Is this Moss# 858-385 (#44 on page 118 of the latest catalog0? You're 
describing the problem I have.

Bob"

All Big Healeys, AFAIK, have these parts.  Fortunately, I bolted them up 
when we reassembled our BN2


On 7/19/2019 12:21 PM, editorgary--- via Healeys wrote:
> Would someone mind being a little more specific than "to be exactly 
> this"? I can't find in the thread the reference to "This."
>
> Given that I have a 1960 BN7 with the roadster dash, could I also have 
> "this" problem?
>
> I'm going to be reinstalling a cold-air duct into the passenger foot 
> well for the trip to South Dakota, so I've got do do some upside down 
> work in that area, might as well figure out what can be "left 
> unbolted" to make sure my "this" is bolted up tight.
>
> Thanks
> gary
>
>     I had a nasty vibration, which proved to be exactly this. It did
>     sound like
>     it came from somewhere in the passenger side of the dash. Took me
>     years to
>     find. Couldn't see/fix it without removing the heater forward air
>     duct.
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