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Re: Headlamp housing

To: "Gosling, Richard" <r.gosling@penspen.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Headlamp housing
From: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:00:20 -0800 (PST)
Don't those three bolts simply screw into tapped holes
on the die-cast headlight surround?  If they won't
come out, the holes have probably gotten stripped. 
You may just need brute force (e.g. vice-grips) to get
them out, and you should probably get the holes
heli-coiled afterwards.

If you are trying to work on a Spit without any sort
of workshop manual, you are causing yourself much
unnecessary pain!  At least get a Haynes manual, which
is pretty cheap and fairly good.  For something like a
restoration as opposed to simple meantenance and
repair, my favorite is a book with a long title
by Porter and Williams.  Search for ISBN 0854297286.

Also check out
http://www.triumphspitfire.nl/books.html
They mention some other promising books I haven't
heard of before.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

> 1974 spit headlight removal
> I see there is a housing that must be removed first.
>  I see 3 small
> rusted fasteners around headlight (under bonnet).  
> I seem to be only
> able to spin these and they won't come out.  What
> are these and why
> won't they come out.  I just started a full
> restoration and was moving
> along smashingly when I have spent almost three
> hours trying to get
> these blasted lights out.  I should probably get a
> manual to assist with
> the restoration.  Two questions, can anyone
> recommend a good restoration
> manual for a 1974 Spitfire............and can
> someone shed some light on
> my lights (I can't sleep, eat, etc.)


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