Simon, if it were my car, I'd put in drain hole in the fender wing.
Whenever I wash my car, I spray a strong stream of water from the hose into
the gap between the wing fender and the inner splash shield, and keep
spraying until the water coming out of the drain hole in the fender wing is
clear. I get quite a bit of dirt and small pebbles out of there that way,
but then I drive my car a lot, including in the rain. Once a year, I remove
the lower wing fender bolts and clean out any residual dirt between the
flange of the fender wing and sill. While washing the car, I also blast out
any dirt and pebbles from the rear wender fing dogleg area.
If you do drill a drain hole, make sure you treat the bare metal edges of
the hole with a metal prep, then prime and paint well. If you don't drive
the car much and want to avoid the effort, leave the finger wend as is.
Cheers!
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Simon Lachlan
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 1:00 PM
To: Healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Drain hole(s) in wings
Dear experts,
Let's agree that a wing is a fender is a wing is a fender..
So, I've been playing around with my brakes & hubs, fore and aft, and found
that I had space and time to clean out the wheel arch areas prior to
squirting Waxoyl in and around the area and I've been reading one of my
"bibles" , namely Norman Nock's "Tech Talk", which emphasizes the importance
of keeping these areas clean.
The main rust traps relevant here are inside the wings, behind the front
wheels. I cleaned mine out- they were clean and dry anyhow - and squirted
Waxoyl around.
BUT,
1) the LHS wing had a drain hole and the RHS one did not. (It's all
good original metal, no filler, no rust). Any comments??
2) should I drill a hole and file out to the normal approx 5/8th inch?
Or, should I leave it on the basis that the car hardly ever, if ever at all,
goes out in the wet and thus it's better to leave as is?
Simon.
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