[TR] More TR3 things bugging me

[TR250Driver at aol.com]

Thanks List for clearing up those first few things on the beading and seat  
belt hardware.  Now I am looking at the bolts that secure the front apron  
assembly.  They are left unpainted and do not have flat washers.   Think Marty the 
blind judge will catch that?  Should they be body  color with flat washers?  
I know here I go with the anal stuff.  I am  going to say they should be for 
the complete body shell must have  been painted at the factory and then lowered 
onto the complete rolling  chassis engine, radiator and all in place. The two 
bolts that secure the  latch up front are the same way no washers or paint, 
not sure about those.  Please correct me if I have this wrong.
 
You know now I can understand why many restorers typically leave all these  
underhood bolts unpainted.  My man Mark lined up the painted  wings and then 
went back and resprayed all the securing bolts and the  channel they sit in 
afterwards. Trouble was he had not fitted the bonnet  yet. That required some wing 
adjustment ruining the plate on all those  original Crane bolt heads so the 
paint process had to be done all over  again.  What a pain. 
 
Darrell
 
 



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