18 replies to this topic

[newenglandmini]

What is this part?  My parts bag label is not readable.

Thanks.

 

 DSCN6091.JPG   57.14K   127 downloads

[Guess-Works.com]

nothing I recognise.... have you any idea which part of the car it came from...

The bolt in the back ground looks decidedly reverse thread, no idea

Edited by Guess-Works.com, 30 November 2014 - 11:02 PM.

[newenglandmini]

The bolt is right-hand threaded.

The parts bag was in my "gearbox/clutch" parts bin, so I believe the parts are so related.

[nicklouse]

The bolt is right-hand threaded.

The parts bag was in my "gearbox/clutch" parts bin, so I believe the parts are so related.

so internet camera with reversed picture?

 

what year rebuild? I have seen similar but god knows where.

 

needs to think..

[newenglandmini]

1974 Mini 1000, all original parts.

[nicklouse]

I am sure I have had one of them spare myself. And IIRC it came with a remote servo.

It just looks so familiar.

[GraemeC]

How big is it (no way of scaling)?
Any more pics from different angles?

[newenglandmini]

More pics -

 

 DSCN6092.JPG   78.94K   22 downloads

 

 DSCN6093.JPG   75.16K   12 downloads

 

 DSCN6095.JPG   65.01K   9 downloads

[Guess-Works.com]

I think that's just a bent bit of tin which someone has bodged at some stage, probably use to be a U shape...

The bottom Bolt and Nut however, is for connecting the upper rod of the rod change mechanism to the bush in the back of the gearbox.

[newenglandmini]

_{I don't think it was bodged.  It is too well formed for that to be the case.  I didn't take photos of that part of the car prior to disassembly, so I can't determine its original location.  Your hint regarding the bolts suggests that the part is from that area.  Barring any further info, I'll look to fit it there when I reassemble.}

[nicklouse]

_{Barring any further info, I'll look to fit it there when I reassemble.}

but why? it will make the bolt too short. as in part number 5.

 

[nicklouse]

but this has got me thinking.

 

is the Box "new"  could it just be a transport part in that area?

[Guess-Works.com]

I use the term bodged, because I don't believe it was originally designed for the purpose it has been used for...

I suspect that someone has tried to straighten a piece of bracket which could have come of of anything, not necessarily a vehicle let alone a mini, and possibly used it as an exhaust steady, I've seen alsort of things used from meccano, dexion racking, angle iron etc etc etc

[Ethel]

Remote servo bracket does sound a possibility. It does look like it might be a bit distorted but the curve section looks deliberate, so what would it fit or clear?

[newenglandmini]

_{What do you mean by remote servo?}