[DeTomaso] Engine cover

Tue May 5 21:30:31 EDT 2020

A captive nut from 3400 just measured .550 x .557 by .220 thick ... surface not perfect!

Bud #3400 ( Drive it like there is no tomorrow -- for there may not be ! ) 

    On Tuesday, May 5, 2020, 7:19:20 PM CDT, Mike Drew via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:  

 Larry,

Not everybody is fortunate enough to have the wherewithal to cut steel, and drill and two holes. That's why I volunteered to help the fellow out. 

I don't have an original to copy and don't have ready access to the cavity where it needs to go. All I need are the dimensions and I can go from there. 

Or since you have already done it, and have access to a car in a much better state of dismantlement to provide the necessary data, maybe YOU could volunteer your services to him?

And my 'simple metric nuts' observation was base on direct experience--that is what the 1971 cars used. The later cars use bigger captive nuts. How much bigger I don't know. 

Mike

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 5, 2020, at 16:09, Larry Finch via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> You are making this minuscule task much harder than it needs to be. 
> 
> No one called you nuts, but I did ask if your “simple metric nuts” opinion was based on any experience. It wasn’t. 
> 
> As the original poster and I had already discovered through our experience, the reality is that if you go to a hardware store and ask for a square metric nut the only option presented is smaller than what was used on our cars.
> 
> As I initially suggested at the beginning of this thread I replaced one of mine by simply constructing one out of a piece of steel bar stock.
> 
> M5-0.80
> 
> As for how large to make this nut, simply make it sized to fit the pocket it is going to reside in. Anyone care to bet money that all of the capture pockets were the same throughout the production run?  :-)
> 
> “Hey Guido!! We are running out of the engine cover nuts. What size are they? Do we have anymore of them? Never mind, find some bar stock and make some for me, we can change the capture pockets if we need to.”
> 
> I don’t know what your friend’s fabricating situation is, but this project doesn’t require a mill or a precision micrometer. Just about any man garage should be able to create these nuts :
> 
> Steel-drill-drill bit-tap-hacksaw-file-done
> 
> Or I suppose you could sketch a dimensional drawing and send it off to a web-based machine shop. 
> 
> ;-)
> 
> Larry 
> 
> Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo. 
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   A captive nut from 3400 just measured .550 x .557 by .220 thick ...
   surface not perfect!
   Bud #3400 ( Drive it like there is no tomorrow -- for there may not be
   ! )

   On Tuesday, May 5, 2020, 7:19:20 PM CDT, Mike Drew via DeTomaso
   <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
   Larry,
   Not everybody is fortunate enough to have the wherewithal to cut steel,
   and drill and two holes. That's why I volunteered to help the fellow
   out.
   I don't have an original to copy and don't have ready access to the
   cavity where it needs to go. All I need are the dimensions and I can go
   from there.
   Or since you have already done it, and have access to a car in a much
   better state of dismantlement to provide the necessary data, maybe YOU
   could volunteer your services to him?
   And my 'simple metric nuts' observation was base on direct
   experience--that is what the 1971 cars used. The later cars use bigger
   captive nuts. How much bigger I don't know.
   Mike
   Sent from my iPhone
   > On May 5, 2020, at 16:09, Larry Finch via DeTomaso
   <[1]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
   >
   > Mike,
   >
   > You are making this minuscule task much harder than it needs to be.
   >
   > No one called you nuts, but I did ask if your asimple metric nutsa
   opinion was based on any experience. It wasnat.
   >
   > As the original poster and I had already discovered through our
   experience, the reality is that if you go to a hardware store and ask
   for a square metric nut the only option presented is smaller than what
   was used on our cars.
   >
   > As I initially suggested at the beginning of this thread I replaced
   one of mine by simply constructing one out of a piece of steel bar
   stock.
   >
   > M5-0.80
   >
   > As for how large to make this nut, simply make it sized to fit the
   pocket it is going to reside in. Anyone care to bet money that all of
   the capture pockets were the same throughout the production run?  :-)
   >
   > aHey Guido!! We are running out of the engine cover nuts. What size
   are they? Do we have anymore of them? Never mind, find some bar stock
   and make some for me, we can change the capture pockets if we need to.a
   >
   > I donat know what your friendas fabricating situation is, but this
   project doesnat require a mill or a precision micrometer. Just about
   any man garage should be able to create these nuts :
   >
   > Steel-drill-drill bit-tap-hacksaw-file-done
   >
   > Or I suppose you could sketch a dimensional drawing and send it off
   to a web-based machine shop.
   >
   > ;-)
   >
   > Larry
   >
   > Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo.
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   >
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