[Healeys] BJ8 Exhaust confusion

[John Spaur]

I don’t know how the BJ8 mounts are but they look similar to the BT7. If so, the bonded rubber block un-bonds with slightest knock on the pavement. I made custom ones that use the same mounting chassis mounting holes but it uses modern off the shelf rubber isolators. I had to weld the front mounting bar to the muffler. Not a single problem and it has been over 6,000 miles. On the BT7 the front mount bolts to the floor pan and the rear mount bolts to the frame so one is horizontal and the other is vertical.
 
John
BT7
 
From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Hutchings via Healeys
Sent: Friday, April 2, 2021 4:12 PM
To: Healey Mail List <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] BJ8 Exhaust confusion
 
I’m getting around to installing that new exhaust and I have the stainless version of the fastening pieces.
I’ve figured out most of it, but the mounting point at the back of the main mufflers has me confused.
 
The kit comes with two bonded rubber mounts, but the bolt pattern under the car only seems to have the right orientation for one of the mounts.
To be more clear, one set of bolts, or studs, come down one in front of the other so that the mount slots into them, and then there is a right angle bracket that then attaches to the double spaced clamp that goes over the top of the pipes. But because the kit has two of these mounts, and two right angle brackets, I expected there to be a mirror image example next to it. But no, I’ve got another set of two studs that are diagonally oriented.
 
Difficult to describe exactly what’s going on, but the diagrams I can find of the system show one of these mounts above the double pipe bracket, and I’d assumed there were two because my kit came with two. Maybe my car doesn’t have the correct studs? The old system was held on with a non-stock arrangement.
 
Thanks for any advice.
Stephen, BJ8
 

 
 
 
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