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Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:35 pm**

I dont go in for cleaning cars much, but cleaned the underside of OEW this afternoon.

The virus has obviously sent me mad.

How does the heat shield attach in-front of the center boxes?

Bracket off the gearbox?

A huge mystery.

Any picture please.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:37 pm**

A few more pics. I am finding posting pics painful again.

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:39 pm**

The offending Heat shield below

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:26 pm**

Car looks excellent, can’t help with the heat shields

Nick

Posted: **Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:40 pm**

Hi Jame's, glad you're well and keeping busy.

Ref the heat shield, two fixings to the chassis rail and one to the gearbox mount as the pic....

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:54 am**

Thanks Nick and Simon.

I am now clear on the two brackets that attach to thee chassis legs. Its the rear bracket that gets me.

The shield is supplied with a captive 5/16 UNF thread at the rear in the location of the silencers, What is it that screws into it?

I cant seem to find reference to it anywhere.

Any ideas? Simon, I think it is obscured in your picture.

James

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:32 am**

It screws - or in my case was pop riveted - into a short metal strap (3 inches long?) that runs back to attach to the gearbox cross support/mounting.

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 9:58 am**

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:19 am**

James

Do you regularly use a fork lift truck to get under your car?

And - when I fitted the gearbox heat shield I puzzled over why it wouldn't fit for a long time and then discovered that the bracket arrowed by 288gto was assembled upside down.

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 11:22 am**

MSM wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:19 am

Do you regularly use a fork lift truck to get under your car?

Yes..... without wishing to seem too prissy about it , I thought that too , and lifting apparently on the silencer box ( with blocks above and below ) is creating a high risk of instability . I saw far too many accidents caused by short cuts, and urge people not to do it

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:43 pm**

Ahh, I think mine might be assembled back to front. Thanks very much.

Lifting on the silencer box? No, its on wood, on the chassis rails. It aint goin no where!

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2020 8:53 am**

James, now that you have on the floor again have a look here how to give it a deep wash:

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2020 9:15 am**

Ralph - call me picky but that looks very much like an E type to me not an F type.

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2020 5:03 pm**

Yes Mike, the guy apparently misspelled it.
But the car looks watertight enough to stand a pressure washer treat!

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2020 6:10 pm**

Surely it's cheating if you start the process with a spotless car?!

I would have lent them mine for nothing!!

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