Mike and all you other fine folks,
Those front captive nuts are a single piece of bar stock tacked in place on
the bottom side of the frame where the shock mounts. I don't know how
accessible it is by removing the rubber stop.
On my '65 Midget, that piece had some how broken it's weld and I had a
difficult time fishing it up and positioning back so I could plug weld it
back in place through a hole I had drilled in the frame between the two
forward mounting holes.
Just some personal experience(although limited).
Tim
> ----------
> From: Mike Gigante[SMTP:mikeg@vicnet.net.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 10:34 AM
> To: Ulix Goettsch; Peter
> Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net; mgs@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: Shocks
>
> The rear captive nut is readily accessible, the front ones are
> buried under the large rubber in the top spring seat. I haven't
> tried to pull that off yet. I'll take a look today.
>
> Since this is on a race/rally car, I'm not all that keen on this solution
> as I'd presume it wouldn't locate the shock quite so well under the
> extreme braking loads it will see.
>
> I'm going down to the bearing place today to talk about helicoils
> of any other type of insert.
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
> To: Peter <nosimport@mailbag.com>
> Cc: Mike Gigante <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>; spridgets@autox.team.net
> <spridgets@autox.team.net>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 9:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Shocks
>
>
> >Well, if you want to become a DPO, you could stick the stock bolt through
> >the oversized captive nut and put a regular nut behind it. It is
> >accessible from behind, right?
> >Ulix
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Peter wrote:
> >
> >> Listers,
> >> Mike Gigante emailed me that he is struggling with the bolt that Monty
> >> successfully removed from his front Sprite shock (good work, Monty).
> This
> >> is the rear-most of the 3 bolts that mount a front shock. As discussed
> >> previously that bolt hole needs to have a sleeve. Apparently the PO had
> >> aleady replaced and over-sized the captive nut. Any suggestions on the
> best
> >> way to go back to the 3/8" size so that the sleeve remains in the
> shock?
> I
> >> don't have a sub-frame or car to look at at the moment. Thanks for any
> >> assistance.
> >> Cheers Peter C
> >> ---------------------
> >> Mike wrote:
> >> >I have a small problem though - the PO had obviously stripped
> >> >then captured nut in the shock mount "ears" on the RH side, rearmost
> >> >nut. A larger nut and bolt (5/8 head instead of 9/16 head) have been
> used
> >> >and the rear mounting hol on the shock has been enlarged to take
> >> >the larger bolt.
> >> >
> >> >I see there is a sleeve in the shock body, so I'd guess that I can't
> just
> >> >drill out the hole in the shock body (that you sent me) to take the
> larger
> >> >bolt. Any suggestions? I was thinking of a helicoil or something like
> >> >it if I can get one in the right thread sizes.
> >> >
> >> >Mike
> >> >
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >
> > Ulix __/__,__
> >.......................................................... (_o____o_)....
> > '67 Sprite
> >
>
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