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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">Sounds like someone was using the original nylocks and didn't trust them to lock a second time. Thus the redundant lock washers.</div>
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<div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; color: inherit;">Bill Lawrence</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Healeys <healeys-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Ricchardd Mayor via Healeys <healeys@autox.team.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, May 8, 2022 1:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark Donaldson <ardmorebusiness@xtra.co.nz><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Healey List <healeys@autox.team.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Healeys] Brake backing plate bolts</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word">I recently disassembled a rear end to convert to disc brakes. The backing plates were held on only with nyloc nuts - no washers.
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<div class="">On May 7, 2022, at 3:27 PM, Mark Donaldson via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" class="">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Learned gentlemen,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">When I took the backing plates off the rear axle of my ’62 BT7 race car the four bolts each side had Nyloc nuts, with lock washers underneath.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">With the lock washer in place the top of the thread did not connect with the nylon – but it did with the washer removed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">The parts book shows just the bolts and nuts. It does not show any washers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">As the car was built in Hayward, CA, in the mid-seventies as a track car, there is much about it which is not standard.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">My questions are: <span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Are the Nyloc nuts correct and, if not, what should be there?</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0cm; font-size:11pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Is it correct to have no washers under the nuts? I would have though it correct to have at least a thin flat washer, even though the parts book appears to show none.</span></li></ol>
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