[Healeys] Boot lid seal

[Michael Salter]

I'm sure everyone in Healeyland is absolutely transfixed by
bthis b
colossal issue ...Well when you live 25 minutes from town and the morning
paper wasn't delivered...again... little things
bhave a tendency to grow in importance.

But waitb& a clueb&on page BOOT 1 of the 100 parts book ... To body # 4129
these earlier cars had 4 off Sealing strips, sides   Part number 14B2553.

The way that the page is written would tend to indicate that these seals
were in addition to the normal sealing rubber 14B5486 which continued
throughout the rest of production.

I have a set of photographs of early 100 details that were taken by our
dearly missed friend Rich Chrysler and
bone of those clearly shows a foam strip in the side channel of a 100 rear
shroud boot opening and I will be glad to forward that to anyone interested.


bMichael S
BN1 #174b



On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:46 PM, josef-eckert at t-online.de <
josef-eckert at t-online.de> wrote:

> All 100s, 100/6s and 3000s had the boot lid seals installed on the boot
> lid, not in the channel of the rear shroud.
> So there is no exception, even not for early 100s.
>
> Josef Eckert
> Konigswinter/Germany
>
> -----Original-Nachricht-----
> Betreff: [Healeys] Boot lid seal
> Datum: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:36:10 +0200
> Von: Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>
> An: "healeys at autox.team.net" <healeys at autox.team.net>
>
> Over the years I have noted that many 100's had the boot lid seal installed
> in the channel in the rear shroud rather than on the boot lid as it always
> was on the 6 cylinder cars.
> I had always considered that this was a 'restorer's error" but I have
> photographs of earlier cars showing the seal positioned in the shroud
> channel although, I also have photographs of a very original BN2 which
> clearly shows that the seal is on the lid.
> I also have a couple of rough but original early 100 boot lids that show no
> evidence of adhesive in the corner of their flanges. Contact cement is very
> difficult to remove and is usually just painted over leaving evidence of
> its presence.
> Anyone out there with an early BN1 which they are sure has never been "got
> at" that could confirm this for me beforeIi glue the seal onto #174.
>
> Michael S
> BN1 #174