[Healeys] 6 cyl engine detail

[Peter Dzwig]

Michael,

it may be that these aren't "wrong" in the usual sense.

Shortages were very much part of the time and if they were short of
washers they would have used what they had to hand, provided of course
that they fitted! There were lists of acceptable alternatives.

It's interesting that you found this on two early engines. Do you have
dates for them? While things got considerably better in the early 60s,
if these engines were manufactured in say '59 or 60 my guess would be
that they couldn't get the washers originally specified and used what
they did have. Knowing that they were in the same batch of engines might
confirm that.

We often tend to forget what a bad place the UK was in at that time,
shortages were rife everywhere in industry and there was no concept of
JIT :-) .

Regards,

Peter

On 03/01/2021 20:39, Michael Salter wrote:
> As above ... there are only 7 @ 5/16" on the engine   all the others are
> 1/4"
> 
> M
> 
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:42 PM John Vrugtman <javrugtman at htcnet.org
> <mailto:javrugtman at htcnet.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Also are 7 bolts to go with the 7 washers, and 5 bolts to go with
>     the 5 washers,  perhaps the 7 go into the front plate and the others
>     go into the block
> 
>     JAV
> 
>     On 1/3/2021 1:08 PM, Michael Salter wrote:
>>     I'm working on an early 3000 engine and have encountered these
>>     "special washers" for the 5/16" bolts on the timing chain cover.
>>     image.png
>>     There are 7 (2K5197) called for on the front cover but what is odd
>>     is that there are 2 different shapes.
>>     Normally I would conclude that they were from different suppliers
>>     but this is the 2nd time that I have come across this odd little
>>     detail on very original 6 cylinder engines, 5 of one type and 2 of
>>     the other.
>>     Wondering if anyone else has noticed this and has a plausible
>>     explanation.
>>
>>     M
>>
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Dr. Peter Dzwig