<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">If the bolt he wants/needs to use fits through the hole in the carb--it must if you have to put a nut on it--making the hole bigger with a tap won't help much.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">I don't trust putting steel bolts into aluminium anyway; I'm going to be putting helicoils into the mounting bosses for my clutch slave cyl while the engine/gearbox is out.</div><div aria-label="Compose body"><br></div><div aria-label="Compose body">Bob</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"i erbs" <eyera3000@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Fred Wescoe" <fredwescoe@gmail.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>, "healeys" <Healeys@autox.team.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, September 23, 2016 11:49:37 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] Helicoils in SU carbs<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks,<div> That was my thinking on the matter</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Ira Erbs<div>Portland,OR</div><div><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> _______ _______</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> (______ \____1959 BN4____/ _______)</span><br style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> (_________________________)</span></div><div> BT7 engine and disk brakes</div><div><br></div><div>Please excuse random auto corrects and misspelled words</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Fred Wescoe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredwescoe@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:fredwescoe@gmail.com">fredwescoe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Lin,<br><div><br></div></div>On my BJ7, I simply ran a tap thru the hole to create threads in the body. I measured the original hole size with a drill until I found one that would not pass thru. One fraction size larger worked for me. Then I used 2 bolts on each carb that matched the tap size. <br><div><br></div></div>Keep it simple.<br><div><br></div></div>Fred<br></div>66 BJ8<br><div><div><div><div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Bob Spidell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">bspidell@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="h5"><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div>I think it would depend entirely on the size of bolt you would use. Note the coil kits usually don't come with the drill bit you need to oversize the holes before tapping for the coil, and it's usually some oddball 64ths size.</div><div><br></div><div>FWIW, it sounds like a good idea as I have K&N filters on my BJ8, and they are indeed a PITA to install (unfortunately, I'd still have to deal with the stupid little acorn nuts on the outer side of the filters).</div><div><br></div><div>Bob</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><br> <br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>