I have an original used complete door strap unit sitting in my pile of
extra parts---must be worth a fortune.
> [Original Message]
> From: Keith Pennell <pennell@cox.net>
> To: Simon Lachlan <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>; <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 5/12/05 12:28:43 AM
> Subject: Re: LHT nut for door check strap
>
> Simon,
>
> Not to rain on your parade, but did you get the nut with the shoulder on
the
> bottom side? These nuts have a shoulder which is 1/32 to 1/16 thick on
the
> underside. Not exactly sure why but I have seen several.
>
> Keith Pennell
>
>
> > Some of you may remember the thread I started about 2 weeks ago re the
> door
> > check straps in the 3000s.
> >
> > I found that mine were in the wrong doors and upside down!
> >
> > I discovered that the left hand unit was easy to fix..weld in the right
> > bolt, adjust and you're done.
> >
> > The right hand side (driver's in UK, Australia etc) is not so easy. The
> nut
> > & bolt are left hand thread.
> >
> >
> >
> > I was able to confirm - by asking around - that it is usually the nuts
> whose
> > thread strips, not the bolts. Certainly that was the case with mine.
> >
> > By finding out that one could buy the whole unit for +/- GBP35.00, I was
> > able to determine that that is a hell of a lot of money to stump up for
> one
> > nut and that the nuts must be "out there somewhere" as the manufacturers
> > were using them.
> >
> >
> >
> > None of the usual suspects (UK suppliers) could supply the nuts and said
> > that they hadn't been able to find them. I believed that they had
looked,
> > but not very hard).
> >
> >
> >
> > I looked for quite a while and did find one company in the UK that has
> about
> > 200. (Nuts only. No bolts/studs.) They did not really want to
> know..selling
> > one nut at a time is not really there bag. (Even though I doubt if
they've
> > sold one of these in 20 years). However I did get one at an inflated
> price.
> >
> >
> >
> > I am contemplating buying all their stock if they want to get rid of it,
> > which they may. But, I'll only do so if there is a worthwhile demand. I
> > can't give out their details as a deluge of enquiries for one nut each
> would
> > lead nowhere.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, is there any interest? Are your doors flapping around? Can you get
> > together on this? I'm not wrapping up x little packets and mailing them
> one
> > at a time.
> >
> >
> >
> > One caveat.I had to file my nut down to fit. It took about 10 minutes. I
> > don't know whether the "spanner" on my unit was slightly squashed or
> whether
> > the nut was fractionall on the large size.
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