Wiring harness clip bolt on bellhousing

[ALLZS]

was the bolt in and painted then pulled out to install harness bracket or was it left out then installed with the harness bracket

[daveg]

May not help but harness- bracket is not painted.
69 L78 Chevelle

Bolt has orange on it

Lemans blue is brushed on over the orange but not the bolts.
Bellhousing was painted off engine.

[JJR69COPO]

Here's an old thread on the subject: https://www.yenko.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1622044.

[daveg]

Sems to me there is a mixup in the linked thread.

The smaller bracket in middle pic is a match for the one on the Chevelle.
Well other than being a bit bent up.

Bolts were obviously out on the Chevelle when the Lemans blue lacquer was brushed on, but all have orange paint showing.


Pulleys and alt brackets also got the blue treatment.
Upper pully getting the old Aircraft stripper treatment.


Did not take pics of the bell bolts but this is one of the end exhaust manifold bolts.
Bell bolts were in better shape.

[CamarosRus]

ALLZS, Is your ORANGE Eng Paint Duplicolor and their Aeresol Primer or Gun Paint ??

I believe Mike Steitz would say that Chevrolet Assy Line didnt install and then remove
bolts in a situation like your question..........see this picture of his Platinum/LEGENDS award winning 70 Z28...........

[daveg]

If post 5 is correct there is a possibility that the bolt is different.

Would have to be with harness methinks.

Interesting .
Another tidbit to look for.

[daveg]

Watched a boring movie last night so this marble was rolling around in my head.
Assuming post 5 is near the mark.

My way of looking into this is going to be looking for a never had tranny out car from said assy plant.
Plain small motor car of course as performance cars got jacked with plenty.
What I want to see is if there is a plastic or metal washer to hold bolt in bracket.
This would only be assy line harnesses as service part ones would not need the bolt.
Wiring harness could care less what it went on beyond basic 6cyl- small- big block.

Her blue car is no good for this kind of detail as it has been apart some.
Gerald sure loved anti- seize and was really good at using all the factory bolts but apart is still apart.

Again if post 5 is on the bolt is likely different.
Will check bell bolt types on her car but it is not the right example for this detail.

FWIW this minutia is a good portion of the fun to me.
She thinks I'm nuts but that is old news.

Will start with car in pics.
Parts car that is 307 3spd.
Looks very old- grimy so maybe????

[BCreekDave]

It may be interesting to see the bolt-bracket in question on the 3K mile 70 Z that bbjohnny just acquired.

[bbjohnny]

Not sure I’m going to be much help on this one. Looks like they didn’t paint the back of my block very well. Very light shades of red so it was probably almost not existent when it was there. When I get time, I’ll try to get better pictures and do more investigating, but here’s what I have now.