[TR] Front Fender bolt heads
DAVE HOGYE
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Sun Mar 27 11:10:03 MDT 2022
Good question. Many restored TRs have unpainted fasteners and are not usually faulted during judging at shows. Everything was painted from the factory, because the bodies were painted fully assembled (minus the front apron). They were even primed, red oxide, assembled. When a car that was original is disassembled, there is primer behind the apron, but no paint where areas can't be reached once the apron had been installed. So, there was no paint or primer under the washers or door hinges or between the fenders and tub. Dumb dumb was used as sealer, gasket material between the fenders (wings) and the tub.
I painted everything disassembled and carefully painted the fasteners separately too, when I restored my TR3. The car had never been apart before. I paid close attention and photo documented every detail during disassembly. I was able to assemble the body without chipping the paint on the fasteners too much, then did a little touch up later. Installing the fender beading after the paint was applied at the factory seems challenging, but perhaps certain fasteners were left loose. Like the three bolts below the tail lights and screws along the truck lid and the two under the scuttle/cowl panel for the front fenders.
Good luck with your TR2.
Dave H.
> On 03/26/2022 11:40 PM Alan & Lyn Dunscombe <dunscomb at chch.planet.org.nz> wrote:
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> Alright, here's a question for the archivists...
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> Am about to get my 'Longdoor' TR2 painted, and need advice about under the bonnet (hood in USA)
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> Where the front guards/fenders are bolted onto the inner guards from the scuttle/firewall forward to the front apron, the heads of the bolts (6 each side) and washer underneath are visible. Anyone know for sure if they were just painted in the body colour along with everything else, or unpainted & cadmium plated?
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> I assume they were painted, and imagine that once the car is running again & I have done a few miles and everything has settled I will need to go round all those bolts and check if they need tightening again. If I do need to tighten them then I will probably damage the paint on the hex sides of the bolts unless there is some trick way to protect them when I put the socket onto them?
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> All thoughts / suggestions gratefully accepted.
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> Alan
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> > Just topped up yesterday at $3.76gal USD in Texas.
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> > I bought fuel twice yesterday travelling between states and paid ?0.80/L ($3.999/US gal) in Ohio. And breathed a sigh of relief that I did a driving trip from Missouri to California and back -- 4700 miles -- in January! California is headed the UK's way on pricing faster than the US midwest.
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> > > I?ve been using a friends Spitfire for the last ten days and today decided to top off the tank, even though it was still half full. Toured around the local gas stations to find out where the cheapest fuel might be available. To compare like with like and remembering one US gallon is effectively 3.8 litres (gas is only sold by the litre in the U.K.) the cheapest was one US gallon cost USD 8.77. Just after lunch I passed the same gas station where the price I paid this morning had risen from 8.77 to 9..12. Diesel was even more! Thankfully, a pint of my favourite beer hasn?t changed - yet.
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> > A TR friend in the Netherlands reported the equivalent of $9.73/US gallon
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> > On Thursday, March 10, 2022, bill beecher <notakitcar at yahoo.com> mailto:notakitcar at yahoo.com wrote:
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> > > Just topped up yesterday at $3.76gal USD in Texas.
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> > > ?Last night I saw upon the stair,
> > > A little man who wasn't there,
> > > He wasn't there again today
> > > Oh, how I wish he'd go away?.... Mearns
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> > > On Mar 10, 2022, at 12:58 PM, Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com> mailto:don.hiscock at gmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > ?
> > > I bought fuel twice yesterday travelling between states and paid ?0.80/L
> > > ($3.999/US gal) in Ohio. And breathed a sigh of relief that I did a driving
> > > trip from Missouri to California and back -- 4700 miles -- in January!
> > > California is headed the UK's way on pricing faster than the US midwest.
> > >
> > > Don
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> > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:47 PM John Macartney <johnbmacartney at gmx.com> mailto:johnbmacartney at gmx.com
> > > wrote:
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> > > > I?ve been using a friends Spitfire for the last ten days and today
> > > > decided to top off the tank, even though it was still half full. Toured
> > > > around the local gas stations to find out where the cheapest fuel might be
> > > > available. To compare like with like and remembering one US gallon is
> > > > effectively 3.8 litres (gas is only sold by the litre in the U.K.) the
> > > > cheapest was one US gallon cost USD 8.77. Just after lunch I passed the
> > > > same gas station where the price I paid this morning had risen from 8.77 to
> > > > 9..12. Diesel was even more! Thankfully, a pint of my favourite beer
> > > > hasn?t changed - yet.
> > > >
> > > > Jonmac
> > > >
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> > Australia (my wifes cousins ) is at 10.00 per gallon ? first time in my
> > life I paid 105.34? for gas 3.999 a gallon
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> > On 3/10/2022 9:06 PM, Don Hiscock wrote:
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> > > > >
> > > A TR friend in the Netherlands reported the equivalent of $9.73/US
> > > gallon there this afternoon.
> > >
> > > On Thursday, March 10, 2022, bill beecher <notakitcar at yahoo.com mailto:notakitcar at yahoo.com
> > > <mailto:notakitcar at yahoo.com> mailto:notakitcar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Just topped up yesterday at $3.76gal USD in Texas.
> > >
> > > ?Last night I saw upon the stair,
> > > A little man who wasn't there,
> > > He wasn't there again today
> > > Oh, how I wish he'd go away?.... Mearns
> > >
> > > On Mar 10, 2022, at 12:58 PM, Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com mailto:don.hiscock at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:don.hiscock at gmail.com> mailto:don.hiscock at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ?
> > > I bought fuel twice yesterday travelling between states and paid
> > > ?0.80/L ($3.999/US gal) in Ohio. And breathed a sigh of relief
> > > that I did a driving trip from Missouri to California and back --
> > > 4700 miles -- in January! California is headed the UK's way on
> > > pricing faster than the US midwest.
> > >
> > > Don
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:47 PM John Macartney
> > > <johnbmacartney at gmx.com mailto:johnbmacartney at gmx.com <mailto:johnbmacartney at gmx.com> mailto:johnbmacartney at gmx.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I?ve been using a friends Spitfire for the last ten days and
> > > today decided to top off the tank, even though it was still
> > > half full. Toured around the local gas stations to find out
> > > where the cheapest fuel might be available. To compare like
> > > with like and remembering one US gallon is effectively 3.8
> > > litres (gas is only sold by the litre in the U.K.) the
> > > cheapest was one US gallon cost USD 8.77. Just after lunch I
> > > passed the same gas station where the price I paid this
> > > morning had risen from 8.77 to 9..12. Diesel was even more!
> > > Thankfully, a pint of my favourite beer hasn?t changed - yet.
> > >
> > > Jonmac
> > >
> > > Is the latest definition of being ?learned and well-informed?
> > > showing the world on your ?Teams? and ?Zoom? meetings that you
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