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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Bob</p><p class=MsoNormal>If memory serves me correctly you will not have much trouble with the nuts. Captive is not what I would call the nuts used to secure the shocks and shock buffer to the top plate. There is not a cage or spot welds on the flats of the nuts. I believe they are just resistance welded to the bottom surface of the top plate and the nuts will part ways with the plate fairly easily. </p><p class=MsoNormal>Before someone figured out to adjust the camber with these plates we used to fix the stripped or missing shock mounting nuts by inserting a ½ inch steel plate with predrilled and threaded holes in the same location. It was easier than cutting off the entire top plate and rewelding it. Only had to cut the outboard edge off, insert plate and reweld. </p><p class=MsoNormal>This was a long time ago, like 50 years. Feeling a bit old right now! </p><p class=MsoNormal>Perry</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net">Bob Spidell</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 28, 2019 8:09 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">Healeys</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Healeys] Front Shock Camber Plates</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I recently acquired a set of these:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>https://tomsimport.com/category/new-parts/front-shock-plate/</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm not in immediate danger of installing them yet, but I'm starting to </p><p class=MsoNormal>plan the operation. I'll cut off the outer part of the mounts clean, </p><p class=MsoNormal>elongate the holes, install the plates and weld the end sections back </p><p class=MsoNormal>on. My question, for anyone who's (successfully) done this--not </p><p class=MsoNormal>necessarily the welding part--is: How did you remove the captive nuts </p><p class=MsoNormal>and any remnants of the welds that held them? It seems to me, if you </p><p class=MsoNormal>don't clean off the welds then then plates won't sit flat on the </p><p class=MsoNormal>underside of the shock mounts, and strength would be diminished. I have </p><p class=MsoNormal>no proof, but intuitively it seems these plates would strengthen the </p><p class=MsoNormal>mounts, as the tension load on the four bolts would be spread across the </p><p class=MsoNormal>plates--and a greater area of the mounts--instead of just being applied </p><p class=MsoNormal>to the captive nuts.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bob</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>