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RE: bonnet gaps and rubbers?

To: <ralemen@cableone.net>, "Grant Buss" <buss3@sympatico.ca>
Subject: RE: bonnet gaps and rubbers?
From: <ralemen@cableone.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:00:12 -0700
Grant you may have hit on it. Is is a bit tight to clamp it down.

I'll have a look and see.

Alan



-----Original Message-----
From:   "Grant Buss" <buss3@sympatico.ca>
Sent:   Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:57:24 -0500
To:     "ralemen@cableone.net" <ralemen@cableone.net>
Cc:     "Spitfire" <spitfires@autox.team.net>, "James Carruthers" 
<j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
Subject:        Re: bonnet gaps and rubbers?

Is it possible you have the locking clamps too tight and it is pivoting on the 
locators?

ralemen@cableone.net wrote:

> Hey, during my repaint job I had the bonnet all aligned (it was hitting just 
>at the corner in front of the driver) and now it does the exact same. Up in 
>the centre and vibrates. I do have the seal along the edge next to the heater 
>air intakes but that does nothing to help. It did not vibrate before, but when 
>it's jammed at the corner next to the windscreen - well no surprise.
>
> I would love a solution as well.
>
> Alan (76 original French Blue)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   "spitfires-owner@autox.team.net" <spitfires-owner@autox.team.net> on 
>behalf of  "James Carruthers" <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
> Sent:   Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:50:38 +0000
> To:     "Spitfire" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Subject:        bonnet gaps and rubbers?
>
> How much higher is the bonnet meant to be in the middle where it joins
> the windscreen part?
>
> The conical rubber adjusters are set properly - as its flush at the
> edges, but it bulges in the middle.
>
> I ask this question because the bonnet vibrates along the edge nearest
> the windscreen.
>
> I might have read somewhere that there are meant to be rubbers of some
> sort that go along the lip of the bonnet?
>
> James
>
> 1977 Pimento Red Spit

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