Glovebox

rsk289 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-12-2014, 12:05 PM

Can anyone tell me what an original leafspring car glovebox casing was made of (not the lid)? And what sort of shape? It looks like the floor was flat, extending past the curved opening - but how deep towards the bulkhead, and how did it clear the heater and pipes? I'm sure the base was carpeted, but what about the back and top sections?
Thanks
Roger

Dan Case · #2 (**permalink**) 07-12-2014, 01:10 PM

The main part of the glove box started off as a flat piece of aluminum sheet. It was cut to shape and most of the holes created before hand forming started. It is covered with the same carpet material as the floors, transmission tunnel, and rear of seats. A patch of carpet was affixed to the upper fire wall. On the cockpit side the four each 4BA long chrome plated brass slotted raised countersink machine screws and chrome plated brass hex nuts (only one side chamfered) for the door hinge secure the front lip to the lip on the dash opening, different chrome plated brass screws (2BA chrome plated brass raised countersink machine screws and some type hex nuts if memory serves) capture the two top corners as they wrap around the opening, the forward edge is fixed to the inside top of the foot box with two each plated (cadmium or maybe zinc, there is no sign of any dichromate conversion coating) pan head thread forming screws that are barely long enough to get through the aluminum panel, carpet, and foot box top. One of the demister hoses goes through the back center corner and that too helps hold the tray in place. There is no top but the scuttle hoop passing through the inside the compartment was covered in black leather. The series of eighteen macro detail images from multiple angles and the CAD drawings of the flat blank I did have allowed some shops to make very accurate copies. I think I made a drawing of the leather cover for the scuttle hoop also, don't recall right off, it has been years since somebody asked me for details.

rsk289 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-12-2014, 03:53 PM

Fantastic detail Dan, as ever. Thanks very much for taking the trouble to post this information.
PM sent also.
Roger

Dan Case · #4 (**permalink**) 07-12-2014, 04:18 PM

Your welcome.

They are not as simple as they first appear. I used parts from three different cars as samples for reverse engineering. They were remarkable close, very close, to being all the same except for the two holes that must have been spotted by eye and drilled while the part was held in place in the car for the foot box attachment points. It was 2005 when I was asked to create drawings.

LMH · #5 (**permalink**) 07-12-2014, 04:54 PM

You beat me to the question Roger but thanks for asking it! Thank you Dan for the answer!
Larry

rsk289 · #6 (**permalink**) 07-13-2014, 04:31 AM

Great info, and thanks for the drawings.
The slight complication I have is that my car is RHD, and the main wiring harness comes through the dash (as it did on the Lucas-wired COB cars) in the area at the back of the glovebox, meaning the wiring will have to pass through it somehow. Unfortunately the RHD owners over here are nothing like as helpful as people like Dan, so I'll have to work this out for myself. But now I know where I'm starting from. The glovebox lid hinge info is very helpful also.
Roger

96witton · #7 (**permalink**) 12-19-2021, 06:31 AM

Hi Dan, I am making a glove box compartment and would greatly appreciate any photo's/drawings that you may have. after reading this forum I came across this info and this is why I am contacting you.
thanks Jim

Dan Case · #8 (**permalink**) 12-19-2021, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 96witton

Hi Dan, I am making a glove box compartment and would greatly appreciate any photo's/drawings that you may have. after reading this forum I came across this info and this is why I am contacting you.
thanks Jim

I will need an email address to send information to. Send it to me in a PM.