Some good news and some bad

[UKPhilTR7]

<font color="green"><b>The weekend I had a little good and a little bad news with my car. The good news was that I cleaned the contacts on my starter motor as suggested on here and now the clicking when I turn the key seems to of stopped, hopefully for good. Also my clock on the dash started for no reason after stopping for no reason lol. Think i will not mess with it now then.
The bad news is that I got the wire drill bit in my drill and stripped down the inner part of my slightly rusty double buldge bonnet. I cleaned the frame up nice and then thought i would clean a bit of the inner part of the bonnet. The rust came off nice ready for me to POR15. But when I turned the bonnet over the heat from the rust stripping had bubbled the pain on my bonnet. SH!T, what a fool!!!! The front of the bonnet did look OK too lol.</b></font id="green">

[Yoke]

I think they call that "live and learn"? I would have probably done the same thing as I recall several other instances where I've messed up just from not paying attention, or thinking it through.

[}:)]Yoke[8]

Can't save them all but I am trying!!!

[UKPhilTR7]

<font color="green"><b>Yep sure is a case of live and learn.

However, I must admit, that I have a good quality early bonnet in my garage, with no rust on it. I am starting to think, I am wasting my time with the bad quality double buldge one and to just paint the early better quality one. I have the standard 2lt engine, so do not need it for the clearance.[:D]</b></font id="green">

[tr7jim]

Phil,

Through the years a lot of the later double bulge bonnet have been swopped over to the early single bulge ones for the V8 Conversion.

I must agree the early bonnet do seam to fair better then the later ones.

Jim

[Launie]

In what way is the single bulge bonnet better? Is it heavier gauge, or better steel, or different construction? Is this universally true, as far as anyone is aware?

I ask because I have two single bulge ones, but am considering the double bulge for clearance - but might avoid that in some other way if this is true.

Launie
'76 TR7 FHC (not running)
'86 Renault Alliance (daily driver)
'77 Chev Silverado (grunt work)

[john 215]

Hi Phil,
Bad luck mate [:(] must of been one of those 'i dont Bl88dy beleive it' moments.
We had a customer at work, that decided to mount a 'Boot Tidy' type bag to the rear of his rear seats with screws,he proceeded to do this and drilled through and put a securing screw right in the middle of his centre seat belt real [:o)] so locking it solid [:o)] ( and putting a dirty big hole in the webbing material) Then came into us in a rage that his new BMW 3 series seat belt had apparently jammed solid the next time he used it [:(!] not realising what he had done [:I] Then wanted it repaired under warranty [:o)]
Cheers John

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[UKPhilTR7]

<font color="blue"><b>Hi guys,
Yep it was one of them moments that you stop and look at it and think, did I really do that?? lol.
I personally do think that the early bonnets are better built and do not rust as easy as the later ones, or that is what I am lead to believe. With mine there is no rust on it at all and I just can not waist the time on my rusty later one. Like I say I do not need the clearance, so can not see any reason why I should not change it.

Or we all could go down the fibreglass route!!!</b></font id="blue">

[FI Spyder]

When Triumph switched production to Canley they also switched metal fabrication factories which used a slightly thinner gage metal. I think the type of storage and climate the car had through out it's life had much more to do with rust than whether one is better than another. If one gets a little nick in the paint, rust can start and if not looked after will spread regardless of thickness of metal or place of manufacture. Whether single bugle or double bulge what makes the difference is what has happened after it left the factory.

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