[Healeys] Top Bows

Sun Jan 16 01:53:57 MST 2022

Not my only problem Perry.  Tried to install windshield wiper motor and
rack.  The curved tube that comes from the wiper motor to the first wheel
box for the left wiper does not quite reach the hole in the shroud.  Trying
to figure that one out.  Could the shroud be that far off?  There is no way
of adjusting it.  The shroud could not move laterally if I wanted it to.
The list goes on and on.  This car is going to take forever to finish.
Mike

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 12:43 PM Perry Small <healeyguy at aol.com> wrote:

> Like most phases of restoring a car it requires building up the car with
> the available parts and see how things fit together, sometimes multiple
> times. Especially true for the cowl, guards, doors, side curtains and
> windshield. Then the finishing of those parts can be done. This applies to
> new parts obtained from the best suppliers. They rarely fit properly to all
> the old bits you are trying to reuse.
> Perry
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 13, 2022, at 11:22 PM, Michael MacLean via Healeys <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
> 
> I fully expect this job to be quite an exercise.
> Mike M
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:01 PM Roland Wilhelmy via Healeys <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> Figure that you will be using an array of shims to fit the chrome
>> uprights to the windshield frame and several trial fits -- unless the gods
>> are really smiling at you. The shims go between the body and the uprights
>> (which are partly painted). Then there's the angle of the windshield that
>> can be varied a bit. Remember perseverance furthers.
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 10:31 PM Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, it opens and closes easy enough.  It looks straight, but like
>>> every other part used on this car, it's not original to the car.  I don't
>>> think it is going to be a big problem.  Now the windscreen assembly with
>>> ALL unrelated parts may be another matter.  The distance between the
>>> windscreen and chrome uprights was set during the body work, but that is no
>>> guarantee there will be no problem fitting it.  Couple that with the fact
>>> this will be the first time I put a windscreen together for a big Healey.
>>> When the time comes, there will be questions.  Heck, I have not found a
>>> part yet that did not need considerable work to make it fit.
>>> Mike MacLean
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 10:05:32 PM PST, Roland Wilhelmy via
>>> Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> good choice, I think.  Have you test installed the frame in your car
>>> yet?  Most frames I have come in contact with are bent in ways that don't
>>> cooperate with folding and unfolding or with alignment with the windshield
>>> posts.  They require a bit of 'reasoning'.  Sometimes a hammer and anvil,
>>> sometimes some homemade tools that look like crescent wrenches  with jaws
>>> wrapped in tape.  May you be luckier.
>>> -Roland
>>>
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>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:16 PM Michael MacLean via Healeys <
>>> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK.  Dropped the top bows off to be soda blasted this morning. When I
>>> get them back going to spray paint one color. A spray can of Rustoleum
>>> Smoke Grey is less than 5 bucks on Amazon.
>>> Mike MacLean
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 11:04 AM Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree, plus I just checked my original and it is completely gray in
>>> color.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 9:57 PM Roland Wilhelmy <sentenac.rw at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> If I understand the question, the header rail is part of the structure
>>> of the top frame and is painted the same color as the rest of it.  I've
>>> seen several originals and they were all painted that way.
>>> -Roland
>>>
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>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:46 PM Curtis Arndt via Healeys <
>>> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Not that I know of, but I'm not certain.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 2:13 PM Michael MacLean <
>>> springer.mike51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Curt,
>>>      I just got finished drilling out 6 countersunk screws that retain
>>> the wood on the header rail. No way in H*ll they were going to come out
>>> with a screwdriver.  The wood was rather crispy.  I have a new piece of
>>> wood to replace it with.  I noticed the metal header rail was painted black
>>> on the opposite side of the wood.  Correct?
>>> Mike MacLean
>>>
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