I had encountered the mysteries of the nuts and bolts during normal repairs
on my TD during the first twenty five years of my ownership. When I decided
to disassemble and restore the car, these experiences reinforced my efforts
to carefully remove, plastic bag, and identify each group of bolts and nuts
as to the location, etc. This seemed a little anal at the time, but I also
wanted the same original bolt head appearance where possible.
After cleaning and a new phosphate coating, I was able to reuse most of the
original fasteners. These saved the grief of finding new ones, and with the
bags labeled, I didn't have to concern myself as to the thread and size.
FWIW to those intending to go down this path.
Ain't it fun-
Dallas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave & Liz DuBois" <ddubois@sinclair.net>
To: "Dallas Congleton" <dcong996@earthlink.net>
Cc: <mg-t@autox.team.net>; <grunau.garage@sympatico.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Exhaust bracket follow up - BSF rukles OK!
> Dallas and others,
>
> Yes, I checked all the other threaded holes (except for the fill and
> drain plugs) on a spare transmission case that I have in the basement
> and all the rest of the threads in the case are the "Mad Metric"
> threads. Additionally, I checked the threads in the tail piece, where
> the remote attaches on another TD transmission that I have on hand and
> it is also 8 X 1mm. After reading that the threads for the exhaust
> bracket were 5/16 BSF, I thought as you did, Dallas, that the
> transmission had been made somewhere other than the Morris holdings that
> didn't use the "Mad Metric" fasteners, but apparently that is not the
> case (at least wherever the transmission was made) and they stuck with
> the "Mad Metric" fasteners. It is curious as to why the two bosses for
> the exhaust bracket were threaded 5/16 BSF while the rest of the
> transmission retained the "Mad Metric" threads and as I stated in an
> earlier post, a bit of MG trivia that will make for spirited
> conversations over a beer or two at future GoFs
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
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