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MG MG Y Type - Boot (aka trunk) chains

Something that never occured to me before until I came to hang the trunk lid on my Y/T rebuild that I am currently engaged on, is "how should the chains be connected to the actual deck lid?"

The connection at the top end is to a plate attached to the car, and the chain link was probably closed up by weleding at the supplier to the top securing lug. But waht about where it meet the actual lid?

I looked at Y 5270 for help and that was when I got interested as Y 5270 simply has a nut and bolt with a couple of pack washers to hold it on. Is this the way it really was done ... or was this a clever expedient by a previous owner?

How are your chains attached please?

Pictures always welcome of course! I could not see any immediate mention of this in Let there be Ys so I thought I would ask you great Y owners!

Thanks

Paul
Paul Barrow

The chains on my YB are similarly held by a small bolt with a nut and washer through the end of the chain and throught
the plate on the boot lid.
D MULLEN

Paul, Paul, Paul,
If you check the nut & bolt database on the IMGYTR website, you will find the answer to your question - Yes the chains are secured to the boot lid brackets by two 1/4" BSF bolts, nuts & washers.

Yours Octagonally

Tony
A L SLATTERY

Hi TOny

Yuo are absolutely right - <Technical Centre>, <Technical Data>, <Size Matters> then <Nuts and Bolts>. Even I sometimes forget just how much info we have on this site, its just that that method of securing seemed so crude!

Thanks Tony - maybe you should take over from me :-)??

Paul
Paul Barrow

No, No, No, You are doing a wonderful job there Paul as Webmaster for all the Y-Typers around the world (you deserve a medal in fact).

Sometimes it's faster to ask a question on the BBS than search all the information available on the website - been guilty of that myself in the past.

The securing of the chains may have been crude, but it was also quick & strong.

Hope you are on the mend now, you are back in the garage.
A L SLATTERY

Thanks Tony but very wishful thinking! I go down to the shop and look at all the wonderful things I have to do down there, and have to walk out again. I am not allowed to lift, stretch, bend, pull, push etc. So today was a lovely summer Pacific Northwest day so I had to lie on the lounger ... that was until it decided to collapse on me. Now that hurt but I had to laugh - apparently I am not allowed to do nothing either!!

Paul
Paul Barrow

This thread was discussed between 05/07/2011 and 06/07/2011

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