Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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gtt1951
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Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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Insertion time
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Next, V-coil in place
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Unfortunately, the adjustable coil collar slipped along the tool shaft and I inserted the v-coui deeper than the 1 turn suggested.
You can't back them out as the coils are only "one-way".
Snap-ff tool in use to snap off the V-coil key
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Dynamo back in place with a suitable number of spacer washers placed between the side bracket and the dynamo bolt lug.
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Hope this will be of help to others.

George.
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'50 Low-light with 918 Side-valve engine,
'51 High-light with Side-valve 918 engine,
'55 4-dr with 803 engine,
'56 Traveller with 1098 engine.
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Re: Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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Just need the right profile pulley and you're sorted. Any luck? Ford one MIGHT fit.
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Re: Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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That does a great repair! Never understood why the MM used such a wide belt, not as though the dynamo generates 5kw!

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Re: Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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In an ideal world all internal threads in alloy should be fitted with Helicoils, makes the thread much more resilient.

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Re: Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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I was lucky, my water jacket/ dynamo bracket is cast iron, it was on the car when I bought it in 1970.
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Re: Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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RobThomas wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:26 pm Just need the right profile pulley and you're sorted. Any luck? Ford one MIGHT fit.
So far I got one response from a member in Australia, but he hasn't yet sent me the photos.
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'56 Traveller with 1098 engine.
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Re: Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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smithskids wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 9:20 am I was lucky, my water jacket/ dynamo bracket is cast iron, it was on the car when I bought it in 1970.
The "other" green low-light, that was on eBay, had the cast iron dynamo mount - was yours like this
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I did buy a spare alloy one, from ESM, to replace the poor-condition one on my high-light, but it turns out that the fabricator has cut 5/16" UNF threads instead of M8x1 fine.
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'51 High-light with Side-valve 918 engine,
'55 4-dr with 803 engine,
'56 Traveller with 1098 engine.
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Re: Re-threading a stipped thread in Dynamo Mount - Part 2

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That's a USHM2 engine with the bracket cast into the head. Your engine is from a much later (non-Lowlight) car. The BMC President tractor and the Vedette boat engine had iron side castings on the later block.
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