Thanks to all responded. Sometimes I mix things up in my mind (more and more
often I have these senile moments- its good my early retirement is close,
perhaps I need more time to relax), but usually my first idea is the right
one.
Many thanks to Magnus for the pictures.
Now to the brake calipers. Does anybody know if the Type 14 calipers with the
numbers DA 17498/DA 17499 (LH/RH) engraved were on the early 3000s and DA
18303/DA 18304 (LH/RH) on the later MK2 ones and at which date was the switch?
Or are the Da 18... aftermarket ones? I assume the Da 18... are the later
ones. You can easily distinguish the ones from the others, as the Da 17...
have much more engraved numbers/digits on them then the DA 18...s.
Thanks,
Josef Eckert
Konigswinter/Germany
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Von: Rich Chrysler [mailto:richchrysler@quickclic.net]
Gesendet: Montag, 23. Januar 2012 23:05
An: Eckert, Josef; eyera3000@gmail.com; Healeys@autox.team.net
Betreff: RE: [Healeys] Girling Type 14 calipers/Steering column plates
I believe I may have been misquoted here. The rule of thumb that is easy to
follow is to remember that Jensens generally painted everything body colour
that had to do with the fitting and fastening of the body shell. Therefore
body fittings and securing braces and brackets and of course their fasteners
were painted body colour.
As for the steering column through plates and blanking plates, these seemed to
usually have been black on the early cars, but as things developed and their
planning and flow of cars on the line got more organized, these cars came
through from the earliest assembly stages knowing the car would be LH drive or
RH drive. Then they painted the plates as required. Careful observation
reveals that these prepainted plates for the steering column still needed
final adjustment and then the flat washers and screws seemed to be hand
painted.
Rich
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