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1. [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:08:38 -0400; I remembered that there was a discussion about this a while back so I looked it up in the archives. Two cures were suggested: 1. Drill and tap the hole/captive nut and install a helicoil. 2. Drill an; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00204.html (7,271 bytes)
2. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: "Johnsen, Bernard F (AS)" <bernard.johnsen@ngc.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:49:58 -0500; Hi Peter - I have not done either a helicoil repair or tapped for a 10 MM bolt, but I have some thoughts about it. Tapping for a 10mm bolt: The original bolt size was 3/8 by 24 IIRC. Worst case for a; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00219.html (8,144 bytes)
3. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:22:40 -0700; "While you are working on the shocks, you might consider putting hardened flat washers under each bolt to protect the aluminum shock body mounting flanges." Been doing that for years with the stock; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00220.html (8,917 bytes)
4. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:12:24 +0000 (UTC); Neglected to add: assuming no 'give' from the hardened flat washers you are increasing the total tensioned area--and the total clamping force--on the shock mounting flanges since the flat washers hav; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00221.html (8,031 bytes)
5. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: "Steve B. Gerow" <steveg@abrazosdata.com>; Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:39:45 -0800; FWIW - my car has 3 10mm x 1.5 bolts added by a PO and I've been using spring steel belleville washers under all the shock bolts for years - no loctite and none of them has ever loosened. -- Steve Ge; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00240.html (7,031 bytes)
6. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:18:31 -0700; Sounds reasonable. Split lockwashers gouge into the aluminum casting, thus relieving some of the tension on the bolt. Belleville washers make more sense--if they're a larger diameter you're also appl; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00243.html (8,503 bytes)
7. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>; Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:00:39 +0200; Sorry for my ignorance, but what are Belleville washers? Kees Oudesluijs NL Bob Spidell schreef: _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Heale; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00247.html (9,662 bytes)
8. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:07:03 -0700; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belleville_washer The one place they might be on a Healey is under the rocker shaft on some steering boxes. bs -- ** Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net ** ____; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00251.html (8,035 bytes)
9. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>; Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:58:12 +0200; Thanks for the info Bob. I know these washers allright, but did not know the English/American term for them. Cheers, Kees Oudesluijs NL Bob Spidell schreef: __________________________________________; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00252.html (8,300 bytes)
10. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: richard mayor <mayorrichard@hotmail.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:18:44 +0000; Belleville washers are cupped washers. For example, there are six of them, 3 sets, in the steering boxes of our Healeys. They act like springs when placed opposite each other. In the steering box the; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00256.html (11,782 bytes)
11. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: richard mayor <mayorrichard@hotmail.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:24:59 +0000; Belleville washers are not going to help keep shock bolts tight. Proper tightening, using flat washers, will do the trick. It is the stretch of the bolt (tension) that keeps things tight. If a bolt i; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00257.html (10,598 bytes)
12. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: "Steve B. Gerow" <steveg@abrazosdata.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:21:54 -0800; With respect, when the bolts are torqued down, the belleville washers _are_ flat washers. Though the wikipedia article doesn't talk about them much as lockwashers, they're used extensively in Alfas a; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00268.html (7,614 bytes)
13. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: "Dave Porter" <frogeye@porterscustom.com>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:54:26 -0600; Flat washers to distribute the load and nylocs to keep them tight work for dave frogeye@porterscustom.com Porter Customs 2909 Arno NE Albuquerque, NM USA 87107 505-352-1378 1954 BN2 1959 AN5 Porter C; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00269.html (10,166 bytes)
14. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:18:10 -0700; re: "I know racers and aviation don't trust lockwashers" Neither did Carroll Smith. I think with aircraft the issue is that if for some reason the fastener loosens with a lockwasher, it'll eventually; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00270.html (10,536 bytes)
15. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Tom Felts <tomfelts@windstream.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:20:26 -0500; How do you get nyloc's under the shock mount plate? == Flat washers to distribute the load and nylocs to keep them tight work for me.. dave frogeye@porterscustom.com Porter Customs 2909 Arno NE Albuq; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00271.html (10,360 bytes)
16. Re: [Healeys] Stripped shock mount nut (score: 1): Author: Oudesluys <coudesluijs@chello.nl>; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:02:54 +0200; AFAIAC on aluminium or any fairly soft material which is fastened with a steel bolt you first use a thickish flat machined steel washer with an OD of about 3 times the bolt diameter, then a lock tab; /html/healeys/2009-09/msg00272.html (11,856 bytes)

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